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Audit Culture and Anthropology: Neo-Liberalism in British Higher Education
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La profession d'anthropologue depend particulierement des universites ; or ces institutions, dans tout le monde industrialise, ont subi des re-ajustements majeurs pendant les deux dernieres decennies. L'introduction de mecanismes pour mesurer la performance educative, la qualite de la recherche et l'efficacite institutionnelle a ete centrale a ces reformes. Prenant l'education superieure en Grande Bretagne comme etude de cas, cet article analyse l'histoire et les consequences des efforts du gouvernement pour promouvoir une culture d'audits dans les universites. Il retrace l'origine de l'idee d'audit depuis ses associations originales avec la comptabilite financiere et son expansion dans d'autres domaines, particulierement l'education. Ces nouvelles technologies d'audit sont typiquement definies en termes de qualite, de responsabilite fiscale et d'octroi de droits, comme si elles etaient vraiment emancipatoires et douees du pouvoir de realisation. Nous critiquons ces presomptions en illustrant certains effets negatifs que les pratiques d'audit tels que les Exercices d'Evaluation de Recherche et les Evaluations de Qualite d'Enseignement ont eu sur l'education superieure. Nous suggerons que ces pratiques signalent une nouvelle forme d'intervention gouvernementale coercive et autoritaire. La conclusion de cet article considere les reponses que les anthropologues peuvent donner aux aspects les plus pernicieux de cet agenda inspire du Nouveau Liberalisme, par la pratique d'une reflection politique.
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- Shore, C., & Wright, S.
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- The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- JSTOR
- Published
- 1999-12
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 557
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- 1359-0987 (ISSN-L)
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- en
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