Gobernanza y Perspectivas sobre Acreditación y Calidad en la Formación Inicial Docente: Estudio en Universidades Chilenas

This article analyses the relationship between quality and accreditation in university management models from the actors' perspective. The research methodology assumed the grounded theory approach and a representative structural sample of three Chilean universities with access to elite undergraduate studies, private mass access, and public mass, around which were conducted semi-structured interviews and directives, to proceed to an axial analysis. From the results, we describe the substantive theories of the actors in the system on accreditation and quality and formulate a formal theory regarding these critical dimensions of the ideational component of educational governance in the tertiary system.