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From Quality Assurance to Quality Practices: an investigation of strong microcultures in teaching and learning

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

One of the main beliefs in quality assurance is that this activity – indirectly – will stimulate change in the work practices associated with teaching and learning in higher education. However, few studies have provided empirical evidence of the existence of such a link. Instead, quality assurance has created an unfortunate divide between formal rules and routines, and the daily practices in academia associated with teaching and learning. This article reports a study of ‘quality work’ – concrete practices in academic microcultures with a reputation for being strong in their teaching and learning as well as in their research function. We argue that the relationship between quality assurance and enacted quality practice needs to be understood in the light of how formal organizational structures, as well as cultural characteristics and academic aims, are balanced within working groups in universities.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

534-545

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Studies in Higher Education

Volym

39

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Pedagogy
  • Educational Sciences

Nyckelord

  • quality assurance
  • quality practices
  • academic microcultures
  • teaching and learning

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0307-5079