'Judgement' versus 'Metrics' in Higher Education Management

Autor/in	Spence, Crawford
Titel	'Judgement' versus 'Metrics' in Higher Education Management
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 77 (2019) 5, S.761-775 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Spence, Crawford)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
Schlagwörter	College Administration; Measurement; College Instruction; Research; Value Judgment; Commercialization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Messverfahren; Hochschullehre; Forschung; Werturteil
Abstract	This article argues that universities currently privilege an instrumental "ethos of measurement" in the management of academic work. Such an ethos has deleterious consequences, both for knowledge production and knowledge transfer to students. Specifically, evidence points towards the production of increasingly well-crafted and ever more numerous research outputs that are useful in permitting universities to posture as world class institutions but that ultimately are of questionable social value. Additionally, the ever more granular management of teaching and pedagogy in universities is implicated in the sacrifice of broad and deep intellectual enquiry in favour of ostensibly more economically relevant skills that prepare graduates for the travails of the labour market. In both cases, metric fetishization serves to undermine nobler, socially minded visions of what a university should be. For such visions to flourish, it is imperative that universities take steps that explicitly privilege a collegial "ethos of judgement" over a managerialist ethos of measurement. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01