The workshop is a self-reflective exercise analysing and discussing the contributions
to the 6th European Quality Assurance Forum as presented in the abstracts of the papers and
workshops submitted to and accepted for EQAF 2011 based on a study of all the abstracts. It
consists of a short presentation of the study’s results, revealing how buzz-words are used and
what meanings and attitudes are attached to them. The presentation will demonstrate
underlying assumptions and metaphors in the abstracts. The findings will be discussed by the
participants using questions that arise from the study of the abstracts. The aim is to filter out
and clarify tendencies in the Forum contributions, to use a fresh and creative approach for
stimulating discussion and, maybe, to provide participants with a tool and terminology for
viewing and reviewing the conference with the help of headings developed in the workshop.