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

Authors

  • Davydd Greenwood Cornell University

Keywords:

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

Abstract

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

Author Biography

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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Published

2013-10-15

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La modernidad crítica