Journal of Transformative Praxis

Journal of Transformative Praxis, Volume 6, Issue 1, June 2025, -

Publication date: Jul 31, 2025

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In November 2016, the Vice Chancellor of Kathmandu University proposed Vision 2030 marking the University’s Silver Jubilee. The Vision comprised six conceptual pillars termed Silver Jubilee Initiatives. I joined the Vice Chancellor’s office in March 2017 with an assignment to study and document the Initiatives and worked till January 2021. In this paper, I present the highlights of the impact of my work. My intent is to narrate the part of my work that had remained undocumented and incomplete during my tenure and its immediate future. 

I inquire the facets of my engagements through the lenses of rhetorical situation, critical autoethnography and currere. From rhetorical situation, I utilize the concepts of exigence, audience and constraints focusing on my personal initiatives and related discourses. I adopt critical autoethnography to peek into those critical moments where institutional culture and dynamics of competition and power relations constrained or facilitated my efforts as a researcher and communicator. Currere provides me with a pathway to document my experiences from the perspective of exposure, learning, education, and realization. This critical autoethnographic currere, overall, reveals my pursuit of Silver Jubilee Initiatives to have been institutionally edifying despite the absence of acknowledgement, and personally rewarding despite my inability to disseminate the results of my inquiries.

Vision 2030 Silver Jubilee Initiatives Rhetorical Situation Critical Autoethnography Currere

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