Quality after the cuts? Higher education practitioners’ accounts of systemic challenges to teaching quality in times of ‘austerity’
Quality after the cuts? Higher education practitioners’ accounts of systemic challenges to teaching quality in times of ‘austerity’
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削减后的质量？高等教育从业者对“紧缩”时期教学质量的系统性挑战的看法
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2015
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M. Iqani
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A. Feigenbaum;M. Iqani
当前英国高等教育格局的变化对教学人员看待教学实践的方式有何影响？资金削减、学生费用增加以及随之而来的工作量增加对教师士气有何影响？这会如何影响媒体、传播、文化研究和相关学科以及更广泛的高等教育教学中的“优质文化”？为了调查英国不断变化的高等教育环境中有关教学质量提高和教学质量保证的问题，我们设计了一个创新的“教学交流”(TE) 研讨会，该研讨会于 2010 年和 2011 年在英格兰五所不同高等教育机构的媒体和传播部门举办。本文根据与 40 多名教员的讨论，阐述了我们的 TE 研讨会参与者如何看待当前教学质量的结构性限制：(1) 不断变化的教学负担，(2) 学位课程的市场化，以及 (3) 在没有足够支持结构的情况下学生团体的国际化。在报告教学质量面临的这些挑战时，本文有助于寻找现有的自上而下的官僚化教学质量控制的替代方案。
What are the ramifications of current changes in the higher education landscape in the UK for the ways in which teaching staff perceive their teaching practices? What impact are funding cuts, increases in student fees and the concomitant increased workloads having on faculty morale? How might this influence ‘quality cultures’ in teaching in media, communications, cultural studies and related disciplines, and higher education more broadly? To investigate issues around teaching quality enhancement and teaching quality assurance in the changing higher education environment in the UK, we designed an innovative ‘Teaching Exchange’ (TE) workshop, which ran during 2010 and 2011 in Media and Communications departments at five diverse higher education institutions around England. Drawn from discussions with over 40 faculty members, this paper provides an account of how our TE workshop participants viewed the current structural constraints on teaching quality in regard to: (1) changing teaching loads, (2) the marketisation of degree programmes and (3) the internationalisation of student bodies without adequate support structures. In reporting on these challenges to quality in teaching, this paper contributes to the generation of alternatives to the existing top-down bureaucratisation of teaching quality control.