Qualitative Research as a Method for Making Just Comparisons of Pedagogic Quality in Higher Education: A Pilot Study

Autor/inn/en	Abbas, Andrea; McLean, Monica
Titel	Qualitative Research as a Method for Making Just Comparisons of Pedagogic Quality in Higher Education: A Pilot Study
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28 (2007) 6, S.723-737 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Qualitative Research; Quality Control; Justice; Methods; Teaching Methods; Educational Quality; Foreign Countries; Classification; Equal Education; Universities; Sociology; Documentation; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Qualitative Forschung; Qualitätskontrolle; Gerechtigkeit; Method; Methode; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausland; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; University; Universität; Soziologie; Dokumentation
Abstract	Systems designed to ensure that teaching and student learning are of a suitable quality are a feature of universities globally. Quality assurance systems are central to attempts to internationalise higher education, motivated in part by a concern for greater global equality. Yet, if such systems incorporate comparisons, the tendency is to reflect and reproduce inequalities in higher education. Highlighting the European context, we argue that, if higher education is to play a part in tackling social inequalities, we must seek alternative methods to explore pedagogic quality in institutional settings. The sociologist Basil Bernstein's concepts of "classification" and "framing" provide an illustration of the potential of sociologically informed, qualitative approaches for exploring and improving higher education pedagogy and also for addressing social justice issues: these two concepts are used to analyse documentation about undergraduate sociology in two universities that have quite different reputations within the English and Northern Irish higher education system. (Contains 5 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10