ABSTRACT Employability has developed into a key component of the policies of higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide, whereby students convert into consumers and knowledge morphs into a marketable commodity that supports a supply of qualified graduates to a precarious labour market. In such a market, employability is influenced by post-truth narratives of marketization to sell education. This conceptual paper draws on critical realist theorizing of structure and agency to discuss how commodified programmes of higher education constitute a narrow view of academic knowledge serving mainly corporations and their financial interests. It argues that HEIs could establish programmes of education that foster collective reflexivity to prepare students to make contributions as agents working within collectivities to enhance human emancipation, rather than merely as ‘employable’ individuals serving the needs of the labour market. Such an approach to education could have significant value in enabling HEIs to support more actively the flourishing of society.

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后真理时代的高等教育：谁的机构是由对就业能力的关注引发的？

摘要就业能力已发展成为全球高等教育机构（HEIs）政策的重要组成部分，通过该政策，学生可以转化为消费者，知识形态可以变成可销售的商品，从而为不稳定的劳动力市场提供合格的毕业生。在这样的市场中，就业能力受市场化的后事实叙述影响，以出售教育。该概念文件借鉴了结构和代理的批判现实主义理论，讨论了高等教育的高等教育计划如何构成主要服务于公司及其财务利益的学术知识的狭view观点。它认为，高校可以建立促进集体反思的教育计划，以使学生为在集体中工作以促进人类解放所做的贡献做好准备，而不是仅仅作为“可雇佣”的个人服务于劳动力市场的需求。这种教育方法在使高等教育机构更积极地支持社会繁荣方面具有重要价值。