From slogans to frameworks: Embedded values or postdigital positionality?

This article explores ways in which higher education (HE) slogans, together with related frameworks and policies, increasingly invade the personal, cultural and positional values of individual staff and students. After a quick exploration of examples of embedded university values that are expected t...

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Published inPolicy Futures in Education Vol. 21; no. 7; pp. 776 - 789
Main Authors Hayes, Sarah, Jandrić, Petar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2023
Subjects
Communication Strategies
Educational Policy
Epistemology
Higher Education
Rhetoric
Values
slogans
epistemology
mottos
excellence
frameworks
higher education
biodigital
postdigital
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Summary:This article explores ways in which higher education (HE) slogans, together with related frameworks and policies, increasingly invade the personal, cultural and positional values of individual staff and students. After a quick exploration of examples of embedded university values that are expected to be ‘lived’, the article outlines some epistemic implications in areas including epistemic positioning, epistemic injustice, epistemic space, data epistemologies, epistemic dominance and epistemic violence. Concluding that epistemologies are always lived, the article explores slogans at the intersections of biology, information and society using the case of excellence. Finally, the article briefly opens up the question of consent. Slogans, frameworks and policy texts exist as all other data assemblages that are subject to regulation. Should they also need to conform to such, or similar, regulations?
ISSN:1478-2103
1478-2103
DOI:10.1177/14782103221145242