Neo-liberales, liberales y conservadores: los retos del tatcherismo y el Proceso de Bolonia y la necesidad de una investigación social dedicada al análisis de los procesos de reforma de la universidad pública

Autores/as

  • Davydd Greenwood Cornell University

Palabras clave:

Bolonia, neoliberalismo, crítica, ciencias sociales, antropología, acción

Resumen

Este ensayo repasa los procesos de transformación y reforma en la educación superior que tiene raíces en el neo-liberalismo y la profesionalización de la educación superior. Al examinar el proceso de Bolonia en Europa y los trabajos neo-liberales de la Comisión Spellings y sus seguidores, este ensayo demuestra cómo la educación superior se somete cada vez más a una disciplina pseudo-comercial cuyas consecuencias reales son la creciente separación entre la educación superior de las élites y la educación superior pública. Dado esto, el ensayo plantea la cuestión de c´ómo y por qué las ciencias sociales académicas y las humanidades han respondido a estos rettos con un gran nivel de pasividad. E

Biografía del autor/a

Davydd Greenwood, Cornell University

Goldel Smith Professor of Antthropology de la Cornell University. Ha sido director del Einaudi Center. Es miembro correspondiente de  la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas de España. Ha trabajado sobre el País Vasco, sobre el que ha publicado el libro Unrewarding wealth: the commercialization and collapse of agriculture in a Spanish Basque town (1976). También destaca su libro The taming of evolution: the persistence of nonevolutionary views in the study of humans (1984).

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2013-10-15

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La modernidad crítica