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The hollowing out of academic freedom

Author(s): Zoltán Fleck, Márton Matyasovszky-Németh, ÁRON FÁBIÁN
Subject(s): Higher Education , Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: academic freedom; neoliberalism in higher education; organizational identity;

Summary/Abstract: Universities in the current world system of neoliberal capitalism have developed structural weaknesses that make them almost incapable of defending academic freedom in dark times. The crisis of education is linked to the social position of science and knowledge and, more broadly, to the crisis of late-modern society. In this paper, we argue that academic freedom can only be defended against the twofold – politico-ideological and neoliberal economic – threat to higher education from outside if it is given substance. Hollowing out academic freedom to be a mere legal guarantee is an insufficient barrier against these structural threats. We therefore propose an approach that focuses on the internal, institutional cultural side of academic freedom.

  • Issue Year: 33/2024
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 292-302
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Hungarian
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