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The micropolitics of quality
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posted on 2023-06-07, 04:45 authored by Louise MorleyThis paper discusses how the audit culture has impacted on UK academics in terms of professional identities, priorities and social relations. Micropolitics, performativity, psychic economy and the changing political economy of higher education are some of the theoretical tools used to offer some explanatory power for the range of engagements with quality assurance. Questions are raised about the polysemic discourse of quality and how it has been subjected to multiple interpretations. For example, there are those members of the academy who see it as a major form of modernisation and student empowerment, while others see it as a form of symbolic violence. Specific attention is paid to peer review, impact studies, gendered power relations, productivity measures and whether quality intersects with equality in the academy. The paper concludes with calls to consider what the gestalt is of higher education.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Critical QuarterlyISSN
0011-1562External DOI
Issue
1-2Volume
47Page range
83-95Department affiliated with
- Education Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes