Trust, Assessment, Identity and all that stuff

Being a third space professional does your head in on some days. Working as I do in education I've been attempting to reconcile a bunch of different ideas around student experience, teacher experience and manager experience. As learning design is such a fluid space in the higher education sector, by fluid, I mean one needs to adapt to shifting circumstances and take into account a multitude of views and ideas.
There are so many concepts to throw into the pot that it can be easy to become bogged in a morass. 

Here are some of the placeholder tags that have been bubbling in my cauldron of late: trust (and cheating), shadow education, active social learning, authentic assessment, narrative identity, authenticity of assessment by supervisors on placement in work integrated learning, agreed values, ethics, academic honesty, feed forward and what does that mean anyway and how is that different from formative feedback? 

Add to this action research, what is its purpose if the research outcomes are fed straight back in situ, why publish findings when they are contextual? To create the conversation I guess? And what does conversation give us other than a warm fuzzy social feeling? What actionable, practical knowledge comes from all this?  All questions rooted in ideas of value and perspective.  What is it that we value as a society in 2021?

So this narrow focus from trust and cheating spreads out all the way to the idea of values and morality, to rules. The theme in my own thinking here then comes from a very subjective place, a sense of adriftness in this existential morass. Without value there is no purpose. To return to finding such a core value, a value that goes beyond nationalism, borders, identity politics, home ownership. That value ultimately only be one thing as a human being, that value boiled down to caring for others.  How does this care for others help us individually when there are so many others?

EDIT on 2/6/2025

Well it doesn't, it's time to think beyond the individual to the relational and the collective, to the rules based order, to find the rules that we all agree on to allow us to survive as humans (not post-humans, but actual humans).