European Higher Education Area and the Introduction of a Quality Assurance Program in Greek Universities: Is Policy-Oriented Learning Present?
Keywords:
Greek higher education, Higher education policy, Policy analysis, Quality assurance
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the production (or not) of policy-oriented learning during the establishment and implementation of a specific policy program in the policy sub-system of the Greek university as well as the interpretation of the existence (or not) of policy-oriented learning. The theoretical tools were drawn mainly from the theoretical work of Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith, termed the ‘advocacy coalition framework (ACF)’. The Greek university is therefore considered to be a policy subsystem in which actors form coalition networks that share policy core beliefs and values, and engage in coordinated action in order to translate these beliefs and values into public policy. Thirty-five semi-structured interviews were used for the production of data, in combination with policy paper analysis.
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Foucault, M. (1982). The subject and power. In H. Dreyfus & P. Rabinow (Eds.), Michel Foucault: Beyond structuralism and hermeneutics (pp. 208–226). Brighton: Harvester Press.
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Heclo, H. (1974). Social Policy in Britain and Sweden. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.
Heintz, Th. (1988). Advocacy coalitions and the OCS leasing debate: A case study in policy evolution. Policy Sciences, 21, 213–238.
Heintz, Th., & Jenkins-Smith, C. H. (1988). Advocacy coalitions and the practice of policy analysis. Policy Sciences, 21, 263–277.
Hula, K. W. (1999). Lobbying together: Interest group coalitions in legislative politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Initiative of Academics for the Reform and the Upgrade of the Public University (2007). Conference for the Upgrading of Public Universities: targets and prerequisites: final results. Athens, March 2007 (in Greek).
Jenkins-Smith, H. (1985). Adversarial Analysis in the Bureaucratic Context. In P. Brown (Ed.), Advocacy Analysis. Baltimore: University of Maryland Press.
Jenkins-Smith, H. (1988). Analytical debates and policy learning: analysis and change in the federal bureaucracy. Policy Sciences, 21, 169–211.
Jenkins-Smith, H., & Sabatier, P. (1993). The Dynamics of Policy-Oriented Learning. In P. Sabatier & H. Jenkins-Smith (Eds.), Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach. Boulder: Westview Press.
Kavasakalis, A., & Stamelos, G. (2011). 20 years of efforts to establish and implement a Quality Assurance System in Greek Higher Education. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2(3), 35-45.
Kavasakalis, A. (2011). The establishment of a Quality Assurance mechanism on Greek University: the formation of Advocacy Coalition Policy Networks in the sub-system of Greek University. PhD thesis. University of Patras, Greece.
KIPAN (2005). Beliefs concerning evaluation. (In Greek). Retrieved June 25 2012 from http://www.ntua.gr/anavathmisi/files/08062005/KIPAN_SxedioTheseon_axiologisi_3_06_05.pdf
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Law 3374 (2005). Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Credit Transfer and Accumulation System. Diplomas Supplement. Official Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, First Issue, No. 189, 2 August 2005.
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Maistros, G. (2005). Higher Education Selling Out. ‘Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia’, 12/6/2005 (in Greek).
Markatos, N. (2005). (About) Quality and Evaluation of universities: Measuring excellence or irrationality?. ‘Eleftherotypia’, 11/4/2005 (in Greek).
Milonakis, D. (2005). University: quality evaluation and independence. ‘Eleftherotypia’, 6/5/2005 (in Greek).
MoE - Draft Law (2003). National system of quality assurance and evaluation of higher education, Institutes of life-long learning, International Greek University and other provisions. Athens: Ministry of Education, September 2003 (in Greek).
Official Journal of European Communities (1998). Recommendation of the Council of 24th September 1998 on European cooperation in quality assurance in higher education, (98/561/EC), L
270/56, 07.10.1998.
Sabatier, A. P., & Jenkins-Smith, C. H. (1988). Symposium editors’ introduction. Policy Sciences, 21, 123–127.
Sabatier, A. P. (1988). An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policyoriented learning therein. Policy Sciences, 21, 129–168.
Sabatier, P., & Jenkins-Smith, H. (1999). The Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Assessment. In P. Sabatier (Ed.), Theories of the Policy Process. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Theotokas, N. (2005). Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education Services. ‘Avgi’, 29/5/2005 (in Greek).
Venieris, G. I. (2005). All the problems should be recorded. ‘Eleftherotypia’, 7/2/2005 (in Greek).
Xrysochoou, J. (2006). It is time for claims and not for signatures. ‘Eleftherotypia’, 29/12/2006 (in Greek).
Zafonte, M., & Sabatier, P. (2004). Short-Term Versus Long-Term Coalitions in the Policy Process: Automotive Pollution Control, 1963–1989. The Policy Studies Journal, 32(1), 75–107.
Published
2013-09-30
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Stamelos, G., & Kavasakalis, A. (2013). European Higher Education Area and the Introduction of a Quality Assurance Program in Greek Universities: Is Policy-Oriented Learning Present?. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 3(3), 105-124. https://doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.234
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