Gobernanza y Calidad en la Educación Superior: Una Descripción Bibliométrica
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https://doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2021v10i3.p252-265Keywords:
governance, quality, higher education, trends, emerging themesAbstract
Considering that contemporary universities face significant pressure to restructure their management practices, this article aims to identify trends in scientific production in relation to governance and quality in the field of higher education. For this end, a bibliometric analysis of the articles of journals indexed to Web of Science published between 2010 and 2020 was carried out. Bibliometrix and VOSviewer were used for data analysis and visualization of bibliometric maps. The results show a strong increase in scientific production if the extreme years of the period analyzed are compared. Likewise, three main research topics were identified, namely, 1) laws and reforms to higher education, 2) perceptions of academics about the reforms, the new teaching scenario and their levels of satisfaction, and 3) commitment and participation of the student. We conclude that, from a transversal perspective, the leadership of the directors, the participation and critical thinking of the students and the collaboration between higher education institutions are fundamental topics for the institutions to fulfill their roles with an emphasis on quality.
Finally, a field is projected with growing publications that address this issue if one considers the current framework of world higher education where the ideals of deregulation, quality and financial autonomy are considering as urgent needs.
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Brooks R, Byford K, Sela K 2015. The changing role of students’ unions within contemporary higher education. Journal of Education Policy 30(2): 165-181.
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Gryaznova A 2018. Supervisory boards in Russian universities: A development instrument or another tool of state control?. Higher Education 76(1): 35-50.
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Jauhiainen A, Jauhiainen A, Laiho A, Lehto R 2015. Fabrications, time-consuming bureaucracy and moral dilemmas — Finnish university employees’ experiences on the governance of university work. Higher Education Policy 28(3): 393-410.
Jedemark M, Londos M 2021. Four different assessment practices: How university teachers handle the field of tension between professional responsibility and professional accountability. Higher Education 81: 1293-1309.
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López-Robles JR, Otegi-Olaso JR, Gómez IP, Cobo MJ 2019. 30 years of intelligence models in management and business: A bibliometric review. International Journal of Information Management 48: 22-38.
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Olaskoaga-Larrauri J, González-Laskibar X, Díaz-De-Basurto-Uraga P 2019b. Spanish university reforms and job satisfaction. Educational Policy 33(2): 1-28.
Olaskoaga-Larrauri J, Rodríguez-Armenta CE, Marúm-Espinosa E 2020. The direction of reforms and job satisfaction among teaching staff in higher education in Mexico. Teaching in Higher Education: 1-17.
Ong K, Chan D 2012. Transnational higher education and challenges for university governance in China. Higher Education Policy 25: 151-170.
Peregrina MI, Álvarez EL 2021. Eco-innovación, concepto clave para de desarrollo sostenible: Una revisión bibliométrica 2000-2020. Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science 10(1): 36-60.
Prakash G 2018. Quality in higher education institutions: Insights from the literature. The TQM Journal 30(6), 732-748.
Raamkumar AS, Foo S, Pang N 2017. Using author-specified keywords in building an initial reading list of research papers in scientific paper retrieval and recommender systems. Information Processing & Management 53(3): 577-594.
Riad Shams S, Belyaeva Z 2019. Quality assurance driving factors as antecedents of knowledge management: A stakeholder-focussed perspective in higher education. Journal of the Knowledge Economy 10(2): 423-436.
Song SY 2020. How does variation in the State’s choice over higher education governance affect university restructuring? A time-series-cross-sectional analysis. Education and Urban Society 52(1): 92-116.
St George E 2020. Higher education quality and autonomy—a case study of Lao PDR. Higher Education 79: 753-771.
Steinhardt I, Schneijderberg C, Götze N, Baumann J, Krücken G 2017. Mapping the quality assurance of teaching and learning in higher education: The emergence of a specialty?. Higher Education 74(2): 221-237.
Stromquist NP 2017. The professoriate: The challenged subject in US higher education. Comparative Education 53(1): 132-146.
Teelken C 2012. Compliance or pragmatism: How do academics deal with managerialism in higher education? A comparative study in three countries. Studies in Higher Education 37(3): 271-290.
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Tham SY, Mahmod NKN, Alavi R 2013. Assessing policies for attracting international students: Case of Malaysia. Asia Pacific Journal of Education 33(1): 112-126.
van Eck NJ, Waltman L 2010. Software survey: Vosviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping. Scientometrics 84(2): 523-538.
Zhang J, Yu Q, Zheng F, Long C, Lu Z, Duan Z 2016. Comparing keywords plus of WOS and author keywords: A case study of patient adherence research. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67(4): 967-972.
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PEDRAJA-REJAS, Liliana; RODRÍGUEZ-PONCE, Emilio; MUñOZ-FRITIS, Camila. Gobernanza y Calidad en la Educación Superior: Una Descripción Bibliométrica. Fronteiras - Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 3, p. 252–265, 2021. DOI: 10.21664/2238-8869.2021v10i3.p252-265. Disponível em: https://revistas.unievangelica.edu.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/5805. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.
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