Tertiary education reform and legitimation in New Zealand

The case of adult and community education as a ‘local state of emergency’

Bibliographic Data

ID11166254
AuthorsRob Strathdee (0000-0001-9288-8737, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume30
Issue3
Pages303-316
Publication date2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01425690902812588
OpenAlexW2047758607
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

This paper explores recent changes in tertiary education policy in New Zealand, which are designed to address legitimation deficits. By offering an analysis of the making, and the subsequent unmaking, of quasi-markets in tertiary education, this paper attempts to describe how the state dealt with legitimation deficits resulting from providers' of tertiary education use of the adult and community education funding category to increase their revenues. In providing this description, the paper helps to provide a way of understanding how the state in New Zealand has responded to legitimation deficits by introducing a new regime of governance. The paper concludes by arguing that, in terms of its treatment of category 5.1 funding, this regime is supportive of neo-conservative goals

Community education · Economic growth · Higher education · Legitimation · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Studies · Higher Education and Employability · Law · Public Administration · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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