UNIVERSITATEA, ÎNTRE MCDONALDIZARE ŞI CĂUTAREA EXCELENŢEI
UNIVERSITY BETWEEN MCDONALDIZARE AND PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE

Summary/Abstract: In discussing the essence of the university, we go through a number of characteristics which, taken together, give a postmodern picture of it. We see the current tension between traditional academic values and the demands of performativity and the transition from knowledge as contemplation to knowledge as praxis. Epistemologically, the university has lost all sense of direction, its epistemologies used to be social in character, but now they are also practical. From where does the university gain a new legitimacy? Universities are sites of entrepreneurialism: new imanagerial nitiatives are expected to work, guided by conditions as „quality”, „excellence”, „performance”.

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