University transformation and quantification devices
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2017
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Facultad/escuela
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en
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Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
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Licencia CC
Licencia CC
Resumen
In Chile, higher education policies have required universities to adopt management tools related to the monitoring and quantification of academic work. Accordingly, this paper presents the results of a documentary study of 95 official documents concerning academic work (Regulations, Scholarship and Grant Application Guidelines and Accreditation Application Forms) in order to understand the regulations pertaining to academic work. Discourse analysis was used to determine how these documents are used in the university environment to regulate and transform the academic work. The present study shows that management tools adopted characterize the academic work through actions such as: establish hierarchies among the multiple tasks of a faculty member and among faculty members using criteria that have not been discussed by the academic community; objectify work processes and reach consensus over them, disregarding current disputes and disagreements; omit the context of academic production creating an image of work as an individual process; and finally urge the establishment of individualizing and competitive work relationships. © 2017, PUC de Campinas. All rights reserved.
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Indexación: Scopus
Palabras clave
Academic work, Accountability, Discourse analysis, Management devices, New public management
Citación
Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 435 - 4482017
DOI
10.1590/1982-02752017000300011