Leadership: a cultural perspective on review as quality assurance versus quality enhancement

Jemina Napier*, Mehdi Riazi, Christa Jacenyik-Trawoger

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    Abstract

    This chapter explores the culture of leadership at Macquarie University and how that might influence the culture of engagement with peer review by comparing the practices and perceptions across four faculties. In particular we examine views of “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to peer review to investigate suggestions that a top-down approach can lead to a particular perception of peer review as a form of quality assurance or managerial surveillance imposed by leaders, rather than a form of quality enhancement encouraged through distributed leadership. What emerges is the importance of leadership actively encouraging a culture of learning and collective community of practice. We present a case study of how institutional policy on peer review contrasts with the perceptions of the same policy by staff.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPeer review of learning and teaching in higher education
    Subtitle of host publicationinternational perspectives
    EditorsJudyth Sachs, Mitch Parsell
    Place of PublicationDordrecht
    PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
    Pages53-66
    Number of pages14
    ISBN (Electronic)9789400776395
    ISBN (Print)9789400776388
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Publication series

    NameProfessional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
    PublisherSPRINGER
    Volume9

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