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The UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) as an illustration of Baudrillard’s hyperreality

Canning, John (2019) The UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) as an illustration of Baudrillard’s hyperreality. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(3), pp. 319-330. ISSN (print) 0159-6306

Abstract

This article examines the ‘Teaching Excellence Framework’ (TEF) for UK universities through the lens of Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality. I argue that the TEF is a hyperreal simulacrum, a sign which has no traceable genealogy to the practice of learning and teaching.

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