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Болонският процес под въпрос: национални пречупвания и инструментализации
The Bologna Process in Question: National Versions and Instrumentalizations

Author(s): Gilles Rouet
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Keywords: Bologna process; student protest; universities; autonomy; fi nancing higher education; European integration

Summary/Abstract: This contribution presents some negative reactions against the Bologna Process and an analysis of that process in terms of economic, political and “auto” instrumentalizations. The actors, the so-called “stakeholders,” have at best the illusion of being at the centre of the evolution of the higher education system. That defi ciency concerns especially students: they are not really consulted and have almost no decision making power. One of the aims of the Bologna Process is to implant a “culture of evaluation,” but this implementation is essentially technical. Rather than making a move to a new democratic functioning, the outcomes of the process separate the actors and their own strategies. The new competition should be diluted in new collaborations as part of the ongoing development of social uses, in new networking structures and public spaces. Universities are precisely such new networks and it is high time for their political “reestablishment.”

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 165-192
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian