From Pedagogy to Quality: The Europeanised Experience of Higher Education in Post-Soviet Armenia

Autor/in	Balasanyan, S. A.
Titel	From Pedagogy to Quality: The Europeanised Experience of Higher Education in Post-Soviet Armenia
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 17 (2018) 4, S.584-601 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/1474904117724571
Schlagwörter	Social Change; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Educational Administration; Professional Identity; Technology Transfer; Quality Assurance; Teaching Methods; Educational Quality; Educational Experience; Higher Education; Educational Finance; Phenomenology; Universities; Program Descriptions; Management Development; Administrator Education; Armenia; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Technologietransfer; Qualitätssicherung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungserfahrung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsfonds; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; University; Universität; Armenien; Europa
Abstract	The article reports on a study of everyday university life and the academic life-world of professionals in education management in Armenia, focusing on the impact of Europeanisation on their professional identity construction. It also examines the impact of broader ideologies associated with quality assurance on the higher education provision in the country. The need for European funding, together with pressures for quality enhancement, create a shared sense of obligation to meet the perceived goals of Europeanisation and, in the specific context of Armenia, construct the identity of 'imitator' among education managers. These managers also turn away from pedagogy, in the mistaken belief that it is contaminated by the Soviet legacy. Consequently, students experience national higher education as a newly emergent space preoccupied with articulating 'quality assurance', rather than an environment supportive of teaching and learning. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01