“There’s nothing standard about standards”: exploring tensions between two standards documents in higher education

Terri Bourke; Jennifer Carter

doi:10.1080/03098265.2016.1144730

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“There’s nothing standard about standards”: exploring tensions between two standards documents in higher education

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“There’s nothing standard about standards”: exploring tensions between two standards documents in higher education

Terri Bourke and Jennifer Carter

Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol.40(3), pp.409-424

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2016.1144730

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Foucault

geography

standards

Quality in education at the tertiary level is constantly questioned, and increasingly "professional standards" are offered as the solution to the perceived decline in quality. Foucauldian archaeological analysis of teacher graduate and geography graduate standards in Australia is conducted, revealing tensions between the different document sets. Teacher graduate standards reflect two discourses (one of knowledge and understanding, and one of skills) that are anti-intellectual and based on jargon and formulaic prescriptions. In contrast, disciplinary standards give primacy to geography as an intellectual inquiry such that its knowledge and understanding, skills, and concepts lead to progressively higher order thinking in graduates.

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Title: “There’s nothing standard about standards”: exploring tensions between two standards documents in higher education
Authors: Terri Bourke (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Jennifer Carter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol.40(3), pp.409-424
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2016.1144730
ISSN: 0309-8265
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451287602621
Output Type: Journal article

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