Trusting in Higher Education: A multifaceted discussion of trust in and for higher education in Norway and the United Kingdom (Higher Education Dynamics, 57)

This multidisciplinary book brings together scholars from Norway and the UK to discuss the notion of trust within the structures and forms of higher education located in two distinctive localities. The meaning of trust is multi-variant and nuanced, but is omnipresent in the literature on higher education ranging from student engagement to policy exhortations. A key feature of this book is the effort to integrate the term ‘trust’ conceptually, functionally and phenomenological more generally as well as within the context of higher education. Practice from within Norway and the UK is used to illustrate and expose relevant similarities and varieties in trust and the (possible) lack of it within the sector. The book thus faces the complexity of trust and its distinctive manifestation through a number of analytical lenses and realities. Foreword References Contents Chapter 1: Introduction: Trust and Higher Education Introduction Attacks on Higher Education Considering Trust Does It Exist or Is It Imaginary? A Normative/Cognitive Perspective of Trust A Rationalist/Instrumental View of Trust Interweaving of Trusts Where the Volume Might Take Us References Part I: Trust in Various Settings – Exploring Norwegian and UK Higher Education Practices Chapter 2: Trust and Higher Education Governance in Norway and the United Kingdom Introduction The Concept of Trust Personal and Social Trust The Role of Trust in Higher Education’s Pact with Society Higher Education’s Position in Society Varieties in the National Governance of Higher Education Trust and Formal Control in Organisational Governance Concluding Reflections References Chapter 3: Trust in Higher Education Policy-Making Introduction Background Policy-Making, Markets, and Trust An English Example A Norwegian Example Comparing the White Papers: An Erosion of Trust in Policy-Making? References Chapter 4: Trust in the Informal Leadership of UK Higher Education in an Era of Global Uncertainty Introduction Definition of Trust in and of Higher Education Leadership Formal Management Versus Informal Leadership: ‘Less Is More’ in High Trust Cultures Trust Culture Leadership Self-Reflexive Capability in an Uncertain Higher Education Landscape Fluid Emergence of Patterns of Leadership Global Changes and Inequalities in Higher Education Loss of Trust Higher Education UK National Senior Management Survey UK Managerial Template Research Findings on Trust and Leadership Conclusion References Chapter 5: Institutionalising Distrust? The Changing Relationship Between Higher Education and the Labour Market in Norway Introduction Managing Trust/Distrust Through New Structures and/or Participation Empirical Illustrations Case Study 1: Councils for Cooperation with Working Life A Trust Deficit? Councils as Forums for Holding the Institutions Accountable Building Trust Through Accountability? Case Study 2: Learning Outcomes as a Means to Structure Cooperation on Study Programme Level Importing Distrust Through Qualifications Frameworks? Learning Outcomes as Transparency Tools Learning Outcomes as Means of Institutionalising Distrust? Concluding Remarks References Chapter 6: The Distrust of Students as Learners: Myths and Realities Introduction A Question of Trust The Trust Literature The Elements of Trust Competence Benevolence Integrity/Honesty Predictability/Reliability Whatever Happened to Trust? Conclusion References Chapter 7: Epistemic Cultures and Trust in Professional Work in Norway: Explorations into Three Settings in Nursing Introduction Epistemic Cultures and Trust Practices The Nursing Profession and the Development of an Expert Culture Trust Practices in Three Knowledge Settings in Norway ‘Localising’ Knowledge: The Work of Clinical-Nurse Educators in Norway Generating Trust ‘from Below’: Developing and Validating Clinical Guidelines Concluding Discussion References Chapter 8: Trust in Peers: Conditions of Trust in Faculty-Based Peer Review of Teaching in Norway Introduction Peer Review of Teaching Conceptual and Analytic Framework Context and Methods Empirical Analysis Based on Participant Reflections of Peer Group Participation Premises for Trust in the Peer Group Enactment of Trust Discussion and Conclusion References Part II: Trusting in Higher Education: Multiple Perspectives Chapter 9: Trust, Control, and Responsibility in Research – An Accountability Perspective Accountability and Control Accountability and Trust: The Limitations of the Principal-Agent Theory Research Management, Value Internalisation and Trust in Research Research Integrity and Professional Responsibility: A Need for Further Research References Chapter 10: Trusting in Higher Education: An Anthropological Perspective Introduction Conceptualising the Context Trusting Objects The Emic and Etic Principles of Cultures and Societies and the Endogamy Exogamy Principles of Alliances and Exchange Anthropological Understandings Trust Unchained References Chapter 11: Trust Over Surveillance: Understanding Reciprocity – A Philosophical Perspective Introduction Trust Within Reason and Societal Values: What Is Trust? Students on Campus as Possible Change Agents The Securitised Campus Free Speech and Applied Philosophy The Bureaucracy of Fear Conditions of Possibility for Trust Conclusions References Chapter 12: Self-Deception and the Duty of the Truth-Teller in the University – A Values Perspective Introduction Trustworthiness of the University Self-Deception and the Erosive Effect of Post-Trust and Post-Truth What Can the Universities Do? Concluding Remarks – Self-Trust at the Foundations of the University References Chapter 13: Coda Higher Education Trust and Trustworthiness in Higher Education References