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The management of tertiary educational institutions in New Zealand
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In this paper, public sector restructuring is presented as the policy context of the reforms and neo-liberalism as the critique of state reason that has been used to explain the reduction of the state in terms of the numbers of people it employs and the scope of its direct control.Abstract:
It is argued that, as a result of recent restructuring, the state in New Zealand has paradoxically become minimalized as well as more powerful and pervasive. This paper presents public sector restructuring as the policy context of the reforms and neo‐liberalism as the critique of state reason that has been used to explain the reduction of the state in terms of the numbers of people it employs and the scope of its direct control. Reforms to tertiary education are seen to follow the restructuring of the core public sector. Michel Foucault's (1991a) notion of governmentality, it is argued, is a powerful critique of neo‐liberalism through focusing on practices rather than theories of state. One element of the reforms to tertiary education ‐ the practices of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) ‐ is presented as a counter instance of neo‐liberalism. The account of the governmental practices of NZQA illustrate that neo‐liberalism is an inadequate account of state reason because it cannot exp...read more
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Quality‐management Systems and Dramaturgical Compliance
TL;DR: In this article, the implementation of quality management systems in New Zealand polytechnics is discussed, and it is suggested that this surveillance has not led to an improvement in quality, or to institutional definitions of quality being realised; rather, that a dramaturgical compliance to the system has been achieved.
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Educational Consumers or Educational Partners: A Critical Theory Analysis
TL;DR: The authors used aspects of Jurgen Habermas's critical theory of societal development as the evaluative stance for the introduction, application and implications of evaluation of teaching quality in universities.
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Market metaphors, neo‐liberalism and the construction of academic landscapes in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Lawrence D. Berg,Michael Roche +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the New Zealand experiment has been anything but good for New Zealand itself and suggest a reconstituted notion of "collegiality" might provide the basis for a more inclusive construction of university education.
The restructuring of tertiary education in new zealand: governmentality, neo-liberalism, democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of neo-liberal policy formulations on tertiary-level educational institutions in New Zealand during the late 1980s and the 1990s is traced, and the authors claim that these changes also undermined institutional autonomy, endangered academic freedom, increased state regulatory controls over universities, and had unforeseen political consequences in relation to the democratic functioning of universities.
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Structure, Direction and Rigour in Liberating Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on Freire's emphasis, especially in later books, on structure, direction and rigour in liberating education, which can best be understood not as a "method" but as a distinctive approach to the theory and practice of education.
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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, with Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault.@@@Michel Foucault.@@@Foucault: Historian or Philosopher?
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