Scientific Research, Educational Policy, and Educational Practice in the United Kingdom
The Impact of the Audit Culture on Further Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7740182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phil Hodkinson (0000-0002-0900-8469) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 302-324 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708607310787 |
| OpenAlex | W2061077460 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article examines the relationships between the U.K. government's policy toward education and what is often termed the audit culture. In it, the author argues that audit and evidence-based practice are synergistic arms of policy development that presuppose a neo-positivistic research stance. Most directly through audit, this "regime of truth" is having a damaging effect on educational provision, explored here through the further education sector. The underlying reasons for this damage lie in the ways that audit and evidence-based practice misunderstand and misrepresent learning. Within this approach, the U.K. educational research field must distance itself from developing links with policy and government that are too close. It is this independence from external control that is the foundation of science, rather than positivist-derived methodological objectivity
Audit · Economics · Education policy · Educational research · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence · Government (linguistics · Higher education · Objectivity (philosophy · Pedagogy · Political science · Positivism · Public relations · Sociology · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies · Accounting · Law · Public Administration
Entre orthodoxie et pluralisme, les enjeux de l’éducation basée sur la preuve
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Power and Resistance in Further Education
Accountability in American education as a rhetoric and a technology of governmentality
Raising the quality of vocational teachers
Who's counting? Legitimating measurement in the audit culture
Risk Society
Modernising Governance
Communities of Practice
Expansive Learning at Work
Experiments in knowing
The Tyranny of Transparency
Educational Research and Teaching
Systematic Research Synthesis to Inform Policy, Practice and Democratic Debate
Clarity bordering on stupidity’
Dropping out of further education
Learning Careers
In Defence of Research for Evidence‐based Teaching
Erkenntnis und Interesse
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Towards an uncertain politics of professionalism
On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing Just One
Situated Learning
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2016 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |