A Look at The University Evaluation 15 Years after ahe Enactment of the Law on Higher Education in Argentina

Abstract

I intend to reflect on the senses involved in the devices, approaches and practices related to the University Evaluation in Argentina from the processes that emerge from the issues that took as axis the sanction in 1995 of the Law on Higher Education No. 24.521. The main purpose of this work will be: rethinking the meanings that are inferred from the analysis of the practices of evaluation and accreditation. I will try to argue that the design and deployment of devices for evaluation have established, gradually, clear trends towards naturalization, bureaucratization and routinization of these processes, displacing gradually other approaches. I think that the critical views and self-managed initiatives by educational institutions, which were part of trends and debates prior to the Law were aware of other orientations and perspectives and yet, were losing strength and presence. Finally, I will try to reopen the debate on possible approaches that today, in the field of evaluation, recover and institute other senses linked to different conceptions of quality in context emerging in Latin America with other voices, other individuals embodying the claim for other rights amid tensions that move us and challenge us to clear the eyes and try to understand to suggest.