Governing by Numbers and Human Capital in Education Policy Beyond Neoliberalism: Social Democratic Governance Practices in Public Higher Education

In: Educational Governance Research 19

Abstract

Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. The rise of outcome indicators in educational governance -- Chapter 2. Methodological approaches: Studying graduate outcome metrics and educational governance -- Part 2. Quantification practices: Human capital and the value of higher education -- Chapter 3. Quantifying higher education with graduate outcome metrics -- Chapter 4. Graduate outcome metrics and the economization of education -- Part 3. Governance practices: Indicators, hierarchical pressures, and temporal-affective effects -- Chapter 5. Calculative governance instruments -- Chapter 6. The governing properties of numbers -- Part 4. Data reception: Subjectivities and amplified resource inequalities -- Chapter 7. Subjectivizing effects of graduate outcome data -- Chapter 8. Educational development effects of graduate outcome metrics -- Part 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Governance hybridity and its implications for education and research on educational governance.