Governing through standards ; the faceless masters of higher education : the Bologna process, the EU and the open method of coordination /

Governing through standards ; the faceless masters of higher education : the Bologna process, the EU and the open method of coordination /

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Author / Creator:Brøgger, Katza, author.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Educational governance research ; volume 10
Educational governance research ; v. 10.
Subject:
Bologna process (European higher education)
Education, Higher -- International cooperation.
Education, Higher -- Europe.
Higher education and state -- Europe.
European cooperation.
Bologna process (European higher education)
Education, Higher.
Education, Higher -- International cooperation.
European cooperation.
Higher education and state.
Europe.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12399357
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ISBN:9783030008864
303000886X
9783030008857
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2019).
Summary:This book offers an empirical and theoretical account of the mode of governance that characterizes the Bologna Process. In addition, it shows how the reform materializes and is translated in everyday working life among professors and managers in higher education. It examines the so-called Open Method of Coordination as a powerful actor that uses "soft governance" to advance transnational standards in higher education. The book shows how these standards no longer serve as tools for what were once human organizational, national or international, regulators. Instead, the standards have become regulators themselves - the faceless masters of higher education. By exploring this, the book reveals the close connections between the Bologna Process and the EU regarding regulative and monitoring techniques such as standardizations and comparisons, which are carried out through the Open Method of Coordination. It suggests that the Bologna Process works as a subtle means to circumvent the EU's subsidiarity principle, making it possible to accomplish a European governance of higher education despite the fact that education falls outside EU's legislative reach. The book's research interest in translation processes, agency and power relations among policy actors positions it in studies on policy transfer, policy borrowing and globalization. However, different from conventional approaches, this study draws on additional interpretive frameworks such as new materialism.
Other form:Print version: Brøgger, Katza. Governing through standards. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, ©2019 3030008851 9783030008857
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-030-00886-4
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; Chapter 1: Introduction: It Changes Everything; Chapter Outline; Contributions; References; Chapter 2: Analyzing Education Reforms; A Philosophy of Science; Analytical Approach; Hauntology: Exploring the Agency of Absence; Matterology: Exploring the Turn to Materiality; Multisited Ethnography; The Ideological Touch of the Bologna Research; Collapsing Global Bigness and Smallness into the Social; Exploring Agency in Policy Processes Through 'Policy Borrowing'; From Diffusion to Translation; Methods and Knowledge Production.
  • Governance Through the Open Method of CoordinationReferences; Chapter 5: The Infrastructure of the Bologna Process: Standards as Technology; Monitoring as a Standardizing Technique; The Infrastructure of the Policy Ontology: Follow-Up Mechanisms; Infrastructuring Standards; Outcome-Based Education: A New Standard for Designing the Curriculum; Outcome-Based Education Transitioning Danish Curricula; Infrastructuring Learning Outcomes: Paving the Way to Hegemony; Modules: A New Standard for Organizing the Curriculum; Modules Transitioning Danish Curricula.
  • Infrastructuring Modules: Paving the Way to HegemonySummary: Paving the Way to Hegemony; References; Chapter 6: The Alteration of Higher Education: The Performativity of Standards; The Spectrality of the Past; Professional and Social Repositioning; Camouflage Techniques; Mimicking Compliance; Summary: Fake the Document; The Spectrality of the Future; Calculation and Acceleration of Change; Redistribution of Power and Influence; Mimicking Performance; Summary: A Borrowed Policy Is a Borrowed Desire; References; Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks: "Who Marks the Bench?"; References.

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