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It’s agency Jim but not as we know it! Do metrics have human-like aspirations?
The employability agenda within HE is as prominent as ever, describing the potential for: on the one hand, employment outcomes, and on the other, an incentive for HEIs to subsist. I’m interested in the origins of agenda, stakeholder expectation, the way decisions are extracted from data and evolve, and how (if at all) it impacts…
Career practice through the lens of philosophers: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Today’s blog is my concluding blog on career through the lens of philosophers series and although not intentionally planned, links appropriately with the previous three perspectives on questioning, types of assumptions, knowledge, fairness and conditions to equal access and our final blog on language, its logic, use and meaning. Although these philosophers (Socrates, Kant, Rawls…
Career practice through the lens of philosophers: John Rawls
In my last blog I explored the ideas of Immanuel Kant, highlighting the importance of willingness and courage in one’s search of knowledge, sapere aude (dare to know) and its value to those we engage with. Secondly, I made reference to Kant’s take on knowledge (priori and posteriori) and how in a careers context it…
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