Trust, markets and accountability in higher education: a comparative perspective

Trow, Martín

doi:10.1016/s0952-8733(96)00029-3

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“…It is a positive value for any community of finite minds, provided only that this trust is not too often abused. (Hardwig,s.707) Trust combined with an active, knowledgeable management style seems to be one way to avoid the construction of situations where trust is equated with the quantification of measures and indicators of an NPM concept of research evaluation or assessment as it has been seen in the UK with the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) (Trow 1996).…”

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Organizational Use of Evaluations

Hansson

2006

Evaluation

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Abstract:Organizations perform evaluations in order to demonstrate their trustworthiness to the outside world and to produce knowledge for use by the management of the organization.In the planning and application of specific evaluations in the organization, different participants or stakeholders very often disclose different, hidden or conflicting agendas.In recent years, the use of evaluations in organizations has grown rapidly and we have witnessed the rise of a new bureaucratic instrument in the realm of knowledge production in organizations, viz., internal evaluations. Such evaluations produce a set of data as part of the evaluation process and the long-term impact of this new systematically organised set of data on organizational activities are normally not taken seriously into consideration when the use of evaluations in organizations are discussed. Said differently, evaluations have become a major factor in the management of organizations, but the academic literature on internal evaluation very rarely discusses the impact of this instrument on the long term behaviour and activity of members of the organization. This lacuna in the literature persists despite the well known fact, established by numerous studies of organizational sociology, that people tend to adapt to external behavioural demands especially when related to power relations in the organization.

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Organizational Use of Evaluations

Hansson

2006

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“…Through the IAU e-bulletin and the journal website, contributors have been invited to select a seminal article from the Higher Education Policy archives and reflect on that paper or on a couple of papers on the same theme. I hope to see interesting contemporary reflections on -just to mention a couple of examples - Trow's (1996) paper on trust, Gornitzka and Maassen's (2000) paper on state steering or Bray and Kwo's (2003) paper on higher education in small territories.…”

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Higher Education Policy: Celebrating 25 Years

Huisman

2013

High Educ Policy

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“…The idea that only experts can be privy to knowledge about the world has been strongly contested throughout the 20 th century. Critiques are found in several domains of expertise ranging from medicine (Donohue, Huskamp, Wilson, & Weissman, 2009) to education (Trow, 1996). Central to these critiques are two ideas: experts are interested in furthering their own agendas (Whyte & Crease, 2010); and the lived experiences of individuals cannot be captured into generalized models (Haraway, 1988).…”

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Doctor Distrust: Pragmatism, Intersectionality, and the Confluence of Expertise and Interests

Williams¹

2017

IJSSS

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The idea that only experts can be privy to knowledge about the world has been strongly contested throughout recent history. Using interviews with 39 British seniors tasked to discuss the role of doctors in matters of life and death, I argue that distrust for expert knowledge stems largely from the belief that knowledge is deeply shaped by personal experience. However, such distrust is not absolute as respondents still hold some faith in medical expertise due to their own perceived lack of medical knowledge and experiences with the medical field. As such, I assert that respondents demonstrate ambivalence towards medical expertise due to the confluence of expertise and interests that they find in the role that doctors play in assisting individuals with their health. I connect my findings to the theoretical traditions of American pragmatism and intersectionality to demonstrate how the ambivalence demonstrated by respondents signals their tacit use of a combination of these theories or what I term pragmatic intersectionality.

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Trust, markets and accountability in higher education: a comparative perspective

Cited by 195 publications

References 4 publications

Organizational Use of Evaluations

Organizational Use of Evaluations

Higher Education Policy: Celebrating 25 Years

Doctor Distrust: Pragmatism, Intersectionality, and the Confluence of Expertise and Interests

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