Will gender equality ever fit in? Contested discursive spaces of university reform

Similar to other European countries, the introduction of non-academic, especially managerial, criteria in higher education has shaped and altered Austrian universities since over a decade. This paper presents the results of a frame analysis of Austrian higher education debates from 1993 until 2010....

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Published in:Gender and education 2015-04, Vol.27 (3), p.221-238
Main Authors: Kreissl, Katharina, Striedinger, Angelika, Sauer, Birgit, Hofbauer, Johanna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Austria
Classification
College Faculty
Colleges & universities
Commercialization
Competition
Discourse
Discourse Analysis
Education reform
Educational Change
Educational Policy
entrepreneurial university
Entrepreneurship
Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Europe
Excellence in Education
Foreign Countries
frame analysis
Gender Differences
Gender differentiation
gender equality
Gender equity
Global Approach
Higher Education
managerial university
Policy Analysis
Power Structure
Sex Fairness
Tenure
Universities
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Summary:Similar to other European countries, the introduction of non-academic, especially managerial, criteria in higher education has shaped and altered Austrian universities since over a decade. This paper presents the results of a frame analysis of Austrian higher education debates from 1993 until 2010. It outlines how reforms in higher education were prepared and enhanced by a new policy discourse, with a special focus on the way gender equality is framed in reform debates. Our article describes three core frames: 'from local to global', 'from ivory tower to business' and 'from civil servant to excellence'. We cluster these three frames around imaginations of space that are embedded in the normative foundations of academia, and discuss how this links up with arguments for gender equality. We furthermore propose to analytically separate two conceptions of the university: the 'entrepreneurial' and the 'managerial' university.
ISSN:0954-0253
1360-0516
DOI:10.1080/09540253.2015.1028903