Movement for a Free Academia—literature database
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Patomäki, H. HP. (2019). Repurposing the university in the 21st century: Toward a progressive global vision. Globalizations, 16(5), 751–762. Added by: Heikki Patomäki (13/04/2024, 12:41) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (16/04/2024, 15:34) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed Published DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2019.1578533 BibTeX citation key: Patomaki2019 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Academic freedom, Democratisation, Education, Knowledge, New Public Management, Power, Universities and society Creators: Patomäki Publisher: Francis & Taylor (London) Collection: Globalizations |
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The purpose of the contemporary university has been redefined across the world in terms of success in global competition, usefulness for moneymaking, and efficiency, meaning application of New Public Management ideas. My aim is to sketch an alternative and future-oriented ethico-political conception of the university to serve counterhegemonic purposes. First I discuss briefly the Humboldtian myth and legacy. Second, I summarize Jürgen Habermas’s analysis of the historical and practical limits of the idea of the university. Third, in response to Habermas’s criticism, I outline a nonspeculative, scientific realist way of understanding the unity of all sciences and humanities. Fourth, I locate the idea of the university in the twenty-first century global context, understood in part as world risk society. And finally, I argue that the autonomy of the university should be anchored in the rules, principles and institutional arrangements of multi-spatial metagovernance, rather than just those of territorial states. The future of the university calls for new cosmopolitan institutional solutions and world citizenship.
KEYWORDS Collective learning; emergence; future; Humboldt; neoliberalism; university; world risk society |
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p. 753
"Last but not least, corporate hierarchies in universities can only be justified, if at all, as efficient means to something else – such as success in ranking competition."
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p. 755
"The university idea presupposes that sciences and humanities form an understandable whole, but this seems to be contradicted by the increasing complexity and differentiation of science and scholarship, corresponding to the functional differentiation of professions in the wider society."
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p. 757
Part of the author's statement: "Compared to critical thinking and personal maturation, economic growth is of secondary importance. Education must be reconnected to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world."
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
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The description of changes to Finnish universities in the early 2000s mirrors changes to Danish universities in the same period.
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
(16/04/2024, 15:25)
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