Will gender equality ever fit in? Contested discursive spaces of university reform

Autor(en)
Birgit Sauer, Johanna Hofbauer, Katharina Kreissl, Angelika Striedinger
Abstrakt

Similar to other European countries, the introduction of non-academic, especially managerial, criteria in higher education has shaped and altered Austrian universities since over a decade. This paper presents the results of a frame analysis of Austrian higher education debates from 1993 until 2010. It outlines how reforms in higher education were prepared and enhanced by a new policy discourse, with a special focus on the way gender equality is framed in reform debates. Our article describes three core frames: 'from local to global', 'from ivory tower to business' and 'from civil servant to excellence'. We cluster these three frames around imaginations of space that are embedded in the normative foundations of academia, and discuss how this links up with arguments for gender equality. We furthermore propose to analytically separate two conceptions of the university: the 'entrepreneurial' and the 'managerial' university.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Externe Organisation(en)
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU)
Journal
Gender and Education
Band
27
Seiten
221-238
Anzahl der Seiten
18
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2015.1028903
Publikationsdatum
04-2015
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
506010 Politikfeldanalyse
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Education, Gender studies
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/49dd906a-4d63-482d-b246-6c583f058786