Homo academicus in world of homo oeconomicus. On the areas and forms of struggle with the academic enslavement Cover Image

Homo academicus w świecie homo oeconomicus. O obszarach i przejawach zmagań z akademickim zniewoleniem
Homo academicus in world of homo oeconomicus. On the areas and forms of struggle with the academic enslavement

Author(s): Maria Czerepaniak-Walczak
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: university; homo academicus; homo oeconomicus; ideal type; resistance; neoliberal paradigm

Summary/Abstract: In the text I am seeking the answer of a question about conditions and possibilities of functioning homo academicus at the university formed by the homo oeconomicus, according to the rules of neoliberalism. Both are ideal types (in the sense of M. Weber). Taking it as a frame of this text is a consequence of presence of these concepts in the debate on the condition of the university. Differences between them help to see the tensions, in particular between the orientation towards research and learning and the orientation towards the profi t, the opposition of the academic and the market discourse, as well as humanistic and economic paradigm. These tensions affect of the research and educational teleology. In this text I am trying to pinpoint conditions of experiencing the trouble and enslaving, peculiar to both perfect types and in that theoretical frame I seek the possibility and chances of coping by subjects of the university with these restrictions. In the end are questions for conditions of co-existing of these two types at the university of nowadays.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 11-24
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish