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

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 Metho...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Brøgger, Katza (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Series:Educational governance research ; v. 10.
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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.