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Mari Elken; Siri B. Borlaug – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
The article examines how higher education institutions respond to ambiguous governance instruments. A key focus is how ambiguity is tackled in the interpretation and implementation processes. Building on theoretical perspectives from institutional analysis of organisations, an empirical point of departure is the analysis of ten higher education…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Ambiguity (Context), Ambiguity (Semantics), Governance
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Atle Skaftun – Theory Into Practice, 2024
Turning educational ideas into meaningful learning requires planning for uncertainty. This article presents Bakhtin's key concept of "eventness" as an essential aspect of defining dialogic space. To Bakhtin an event is something happening here and now, with a degree of open-ended uncertainty tied to what will happen next. Acknowledging…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Perspective Taking