NDLI: Changing mechanisms of governmentality? Academic development in New Zealand and student evaluations of teaching

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Barrow, M. Grant, B. M.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Academic (or educational) development is a relatively recent project in universities. In Aotearoa New Zealand there were two waves of foundation for academic development, separated by almost 20 years, during which time much in national and international higher education had changed. This article draws on empirical and archival data to propose that shifts between the two waves give insight into the changing mechanisms of governmentality at work for academic staff in higher education. In a particular case, the emergence and consolidation of a culture of student evaluation of teaching is used to illustrate how academic development has been implicated in those shifts. In the earlier period, from a marginal location, a more pastoral mode of power relations between the academic developer as an institutional change agent and the academic staff they worked with is evident, with an emphasis on voluntary participation from the latter. By contrast, in the later period, academic development has moved closer to the institutional centre and is participating in more disciplinary forms of power relations in its efforts to shape academic conduct towards certain ends. In this shift, a technology that was initially created and implemented by academic development for one purpose was ultimately taken up by the institution for quite another: it became part of the audit machine. While our data come from a particular case of practice within local national context, the cautionary tale offered here has salience for other academic development practices and other countries where academic development has had a similar story.
Starting Page	589
Ending Page	601
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00181560
Journal	Higher Education
Volume Number	72
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	1573174X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-11-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Academic development Governmentality Student evaluations of teaching University teaching Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Law

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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