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1.Abstract The Chinese higher education reform policies since 1993 have been
pursued in a centralized, topdown manner, which some theorists
characterize as “centralized decentralization” or governmental
“steering at distance.” This casestudy research has two purposes.
First, is to evaluate the implementation or the “situated
practices” of national higher education reform policies (the
amalgamation, expansion, and quality assurance policies). Second,
is to elaborate on the locallygrounded innovative ideas and
practices at a key university in a large city in China. The
methodological approach used is phenomenological interviews, a
vehicle that elicits “local knowledge” and accords the status of
expertise to the interview participants. This methodology maps out
the different experiences and meanings that different social groups
derive from the centralized policies and generates new ideas for
policy actions. The findings suggest that at the institutional level, the faculty
members, administrators, and students are highly reflexive,
resilient and pragmatic. Instead of mutely accepting national
higher education reform policies as given, the faculty members,
administrators and students are making an active effort to
reappropriate distant faculty members, fashioning them into locally
meaningful and relevant terms and practices. Furthermore, the
findings suggest that smallscale, insideout innovations grounded
in local peoples meaningmaking systems and congruent with their
perceptions of organizational purposes, profuse and proliferate at
the university of focus. In conclusion, in this study, I stress the importance to
distinguish universities which naturally defy topdown, centralized
reform efforts, and other models of organizations (e. g., business
organizations and annexations of governmental bureaus).
Furthermore, I discuss the viability of insideout, bottomup
approaches to policymaking in higher education reforms. 2.Table of Contents Chapter 1Introduction1 Statement of Problem4 Objectives and Significance of the Study16 Defining the Case20 Overview of the Research23 Chapter 2Literature Review26 Amalgamation and Expansion27 Chinese National Quality Assurance Policies55 Chapter 3Methods70 Setting70 Researcher Positionality74 Participants79 Data Collection and Analysis84 Chapter 4University Peoples Experiences and
Perceptions of the Amalgamation and Expansion Polices94 Experiences with and Resistance to the Amalgamation Policy 95 Experiences with and Perceptions of the Expansion Policy109 Summary130 Chapter 5University Peoples Experiences and
Perceptions of Quality Assurance Mechanisms132 Experiences with and Perceptions of the National
Undergraduate Teaching Evaluation134 The Uinversitys Dudao Team and Faculty Coping Strategies 147 Research Promotion Criteria and Faculty Coping Strategies153 Summary166 Chapter 6Innovative Ideas and Practices at the
University of Focus167 Five Properties of Local Innovations169 Summary184 Chapter 7Conclusions and Implications 185 Summary of the Previous Chapters185 Implications190 References201 |
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