Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher Education

Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher Education

Higher education is a site of contesting visions by actors in politics, science and the economy. This article investigates imaginations of the future articulated around the introduction of data science in Swiss higher education through a qualitative analysis of study programmes, policy documents, an...

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Main Author: Saner Philippe
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Sciendo 2019-11-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Sociology
Subjects:
higher education
digitisation
data science
curricula
future imaginaries
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0017
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Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher Education
Swiss Journal of Sociology
higher education
digitisation
data science
curricula
future imaginaries
author_facet Saner Philippe
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title Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher Education
title_short Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher Education
title_full Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher Education
title_fullStr Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher Education
title_full_unstemmed Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher Education
title_sort envisioning higher education: how imagining the future shapes the implementation of a new field in higher education
publisher Sciendo
series Swiss Journal of Sociology
issn 2297-8348
publishDate 2019-11-01
description Higher education is a site of contesting visions by actors in politics, science and the economy. This article investigates imaginations of the future articulated around the introduction of data science in Swiss higher education through a qualitative analysis of study programmes, policy documents, and business reports. Universities envision data sciences mainly in reference to economic and technological concepts, which contribute to the coordination of the various actors and thus unfolds specific performative effects in the present.
topic higher education
digitisation
data science
curricula
future imaginaries
url https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0017
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