With increasing competition and metrics focusing on teaching quality (e.g. the teaching excellence framework or TEF), there is a spotlight on learning and teaching (L&T) in policies and practices within universities. Bodies at national and institutional levels focus on disseminating policy ideas on L&T which are oriented to government priorities. This article focuses on how policy itself is discursively constructed in selected L&T policy documents and explores the means of the recontextualisation of policy discourses. I discuss the following three findings: (1) the construction of policy as ‘embedded within processes and practices’, (2) shifts in genre and discursive strategies as policy ideas become short guidelines and (3) the role of ‘discursive mechanisms’ in forcing engagement with policy ideas. Through an analysis of discursive strategies and recontextualisation, I demonstrate the seeming insecurity around policy compliance and show how constructions of L&T are never value-free.

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“嵌入核心”：高等教育学与教文献中“政策”的话语建构及其在实践中的再语境化

随着关注教学质量的竞争和衡量标准（例如卓越教学框架或 TEF）的增加，大学内部政策和实践中的学与教 (L&T) 成为焦点。国家和机构层面的机构专注于传播面向政府优先事项的 L&T 政策理念。本文重点关注政策本身如何在选定的 L&T 政策文件中进行话语构建，并探讨政策话语重新语境化的方法。我讨论了以下三个发现：（1）将政策构建为“嵌入到过程和实践中”，（2）随着政策理念成为简短的指导方针，体裁和话语策略发生转变，以及（3）“话语机制”在强制参与政策理念。