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标题：Higher Degree Committee Members’ Perceptions of Quality Assurance of Doctoral Education: A South African Perspective
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作者：Petro Du Preez ; Shan Simmonds
期刊名称：International Journal of Doctoral Studies
印刷版ISSN：1556-8881
电子版ISSN：1556-8873
出版年度：2016
卷号：11
页码：341-365
DOI：10.28945/3586
语种：English
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：In South Africa four key policy discourses underpin doctoral education: growth, capacity, efficiency, and quality discourses. This article contributes to the discourse on quality by engaging with quality assurance from the perspective of the decision makers and implementers of macro policy (national), meso (institutional), and micro (faculty/departmental) levels. We explore the perceptions that members of higher degree committees in the field of Education have of the quality assurance of doctoral education. Our data are drawn from a national survey questionnaire completed by these respondents at all public South African institutions that offer a doctorate in Education. The insights gained reside within four categories: positionality, policy, programmes, and people (stakeholders). Thereafter, we problematised the main results using academic freedom in a mode 3 knowledge production environment as a lens, which revealed thought provoking directions for future research about doctoral education.
关键词：higher degree committee members; quality assurance; doctoral education; academic freedom; mode 3 knowledge production; higher education; South Africa