The Selectivity of Translation: Accountability Regimes in Chilean and South African Higher Education

Autor/in	Dickhaus, Barbara
Titel	The Selectivity of Translation: Accountability Regimes in Chilean and South African Higher Education
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 8 (2010) 2, S.257-268 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Global Approach; Cultural Context; Educational Quality; Accountability; Governance; Quality Control; Foreign Countries; Democracy; Competition; Economic Factors; Educational Administration; Chile; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Globales Denken; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Verantwortung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Qualitätskontrolle; Ausland; Demokratie; Wettkampf; Ökonomischer Faktor; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This paper examines the translation of global educational norms of quality assurance in two countries with very different regulatory regimes in higher education: Chile and South Africa. The translation process is conceptualised here as a contested socio-political process of appropriation and creation of meaning. Drawing upon the strategic-relational concept of selectivity, the paper argues that quality assurance policies have become a hegemonic tool for re-organising higher education because a variety of--partly contradictory--meanings and interests can be attached to them: quality assurance is linked to rationales such as democratic transformation, re-establishing public governance, strengthening market governance, contributing to national competitiveness, internationalisation of higher education or positioning universities in the (global) education market. Looking at the translation of quality assurance policies with the concept of selectivity enables us to see how structure, agency, discourses and scales operate strategically-selectively in creating compromises between different interests in higher education governance. (Contains 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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