#10543. A Textual Poststructuralist Reading of Quality Assurance Policy in Iran’s Higher Education

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Abstract:
The aim of this investigation was twofold: to explore how policy texts are discursively involved in the formation of subject positions and to help lay bare the part dominant hegemonic discourses play in this process. To this end, a policy document on the higher education quality supervision, assessment, and assurance system was analyzed using the theoretical lens of poststructuralism and the analytical resources of critical discourse analysis to see how language is implicated in the asymmetrical representation of actors/actions in that domain of social life, and might channel our views of reality in specific ways.
Keywords:
critical discourse analysis; higher education; Iran; poststructuralism; quality assurance

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