A1 Journal article (refereed)
Assemblages of language, impact and research (2022)
Ennser-Kananen, J., Károly, A., & Saarinen, T. (2022). Assemblages of language, impact and research. Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies, 16(3), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.47862/apples.114943
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Ennser-Kananen, Johanna; Károly, Adrienn; Saarinen, Taina
Journal or series: Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies
eISSN: 1457-9863
Publication year: 2022
Publication date: 05/12/2022
Volume: 16
Issue number: 3
Pages range: 69-86
Publisher: Jyväskylän yliopisto
Publication country: Finland
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47862/apples.114943
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Open Access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/84513
Abstract
Three scholars—of languages and knowledges, of translation and writing, and of higher education—discuss societal impact as a higher education policy goal and the language ideologies that link with that discussion. We first criticize the problematic notion of impact that is common in higher education policy and discuss language and impact in terms of their assumed predictable, definable, and linear nature. From there, we move on to advocating for a multimodal, multidirectional, locally, and globally relevant impact that is focused on direct engagement, participatory approaches, support for promoting community activities, and introducing more epistemologically just understandings of the relationship between the researcher and the community they work with. Eventually, this requires us academics to be accountable to our environment and to abandon the binaries between researcher–researched, subject–object, and human–non-human.
Keywords: higher education (teaching); languages; social effects; societal effects
Free keywords: higher education policy; societal impact; scientific impact; language
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Reporting Year: 2022
Preliminary JUFO rating: 1
