Towards a parrhesiastic engagement with graduate employability

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ID12928679
AuthorsMichael Hall (0000-0003-3929-3747, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume12
Issue1
Pages110-122
Publication date2019-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePower and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1757743819890356
OpenAlexW2991316433
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

Graduate employability has become a central part of the policy debate on the relevance and value of higher education in Europe, often associated with meeting the economic demands of society. This has led to a sense of institutional vulnerability to the vagaries of market forces and public opinion, leading some higher education institutions to adopt narrow and reductive approaches to engaging with graduate employability in response. Yet such responses are not inevitable. This article deploys Foucault’s notion of parrhesia to argue that the vulnerability experienced by institutions represents an opportunity to engage with the truth of graduate employability. By conceiving of employability as the pursuit of self-transformation, institutions are able to induce students to problematise their own employability. In doing so, the possibility exists of disrupting narrow conceptions of employability and of opening up myriad possibilities of being

Employability · Engineering ethics · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Relevance (law · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Vulnerability (computing · Engineering · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Higher Education and Employability · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Law

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