Katja Brøgger

TY - ABST

T1 - The Rule of Mimetic Desire in Higher Education

T2 - The European Conference on Educational Research

AU - Brøgger, Katja

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This abstract is based on a multisited policy ethnography. This ethnography aimed to contribute to research on international higher education reform by offering an empirical and theoretical account of the governing mode of the Bologna Process, including the use of standards as a governing technology, and by demonstrating how the reform materializes and is translated in everyday working life. In order to capture the transformative character of the education standards I take inspiration in Karen Barad’s work in which she ascribes agency to matter. Barad represents what I call the onto-epistemological turn within poststructuralism. This means that she brings together ontology and epistemology. In this case it enables me to understand that standards do not merely move at the epistemological level, as specifications and ideas to follow. They also intra-act with material practices in everyday working-life. The new standards alter that which they seek to govern because they change the organizing, routines and sociality of professional working-life.

AB - This abstract is based on a multisited policy ethnography. This ethnography aimed to contribute to research on international higher education reform by offering an empirical and theoretical account of the governing mode of the Bologna Process, including the use of standards as a governing technology, and by demonstrating how the reform materializes and is translated in everyday working life. In order to capture the transformative character of the education standards I take inspiration in Karen Barad’s work in which she ascribes agency to matter. Barad represents what I call the onto-epistemological turn within poststructuralism. This means that she brings together ontology and epistemology. In this case it enables me to understand that standards do not merely move at the epistemological level, as specifications and ideas to follow. They also intra-act with material practices in everyday working-life. The new standards alter that which they seek to govern because they change the organizing, routines and sociality of professional working-life.

KW - Videregående uddannelse

KW - Uddannelsespolitik

KW - Internationalisering/globalisering

KW - Videregående uddannelse

KW - Uddannelsespolitik

KW - Internationalisering/globalisering

M3 - Conference abstract for conference

Y2 - 7 September 2015 through 11 September 2015

ER -