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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| 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-039f95a00a414d78ab75ace2aab26aad2025-08-20T01:54:45ZdeuSeismo VerlagSwiss Journal of Sociology2297-83482019-11-0145335938110.2478/sjs-2019-0017sjs-2019-0017Envisioning Higher Education: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Implementation of a New Field in Higher EducationSaner Philippe0University of Lucerne, Department of Sociology, CH-6002LucerneHigher 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.https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0017higher educationdigitisationdata sciencecurriculafuture imaginaries |
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| title | 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_short | 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 |
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