期刊名称：Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
印刷版ISSN：1740-2743
电子版ISSN：1740-2743
出版年度：2017
卷号：15
期号：2
页码：1-32
出版社：Institute for Education Policy Studies
摘要：This paper offers conceptual and theoretical insights relating to the
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), highlighting a range of
potential systemic and institutional outcomes and issues. The paper
is organised around three key areas of discussion that are often
under-explored in debates. Firstly, after considering the TEF in the
wider context of recent reforms, the paper offers a critical
assessment, highlighting a broad range of flaws, issues and
weaknesses in its design and execution. Counter to many ‘common
assumptions’, it is argued that such weaknesses may mean the TEF
is unlikely to pass smoothly or unopposed into policy and practice,
and moreover it may result in a range of unexpected outcomes and
‘refractions'. The paper then attempts to offer conceptual insights
into possible institutional responses to the TEF, and the
implications these may have for institutions and across the sector
as a whole. Finally, it is argued that the TEF should be considered
in its wider context, as a landmark initiative that is designed to
further embed a neoliberal audit and monitoring culture into
Higher Education, and one that is unlikely to bring about the
proclaimed teaching excellence.
关键词：Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF); Higher Education and
