Accreditation and Power: A Discourse Analysis of a New Regime of Governance in Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Engebretsen, Eivind; Heggen, Kristin; Eilertsen, Heidi Annett
Titel	Accreditation and Power: A Discourse Analysis of a New Regime of Governance in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 56 (2012) 4, S.401-417 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-3831
DOI	10.1080/00313831.2011.599419
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Discourse Analysis; Quality Control; Accreditation (Institutions); Foreign Countries; Educational Quality; Nursing Education; Power Structure; Supervision; Self Control; Governance; Educational Administration; Evaluators; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Diskursanalyse; Qualitätskontrolle; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Ausland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Pflegepädagogik; Selbstbeherrschung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Norwegen
Abstract	This article studies discourses within the accreditation of Norwegian higher education conducted by the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), using one concrete case (the accreditation of bachelor programs in nursing). Analysis of policy documents and accreditation reports are influenced by two of Foucault's concepts of power; governmentality and panopticon. The analysis provides insights into firstly, how the two forms of power are woven into the schemes used for quality control by redefining quality to be a quantifiable concept; secondly, how the supervision of quality gives privilege to specific types of knowledge; thirdly, how supervisory power is reformulated to require self-control mechanisms within higher education in terms of constant quality development and realization of unexploited potentials; and fourthly, how this power legitimates itself by making all parties guardians of quality control, deconstructing the difference between evaluator and evaluated. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10