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“Let’s run away …”: a paper on academic disobedience

Author(s): Sylwia Jaskulska, Karol Motyl
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Higher Education , Societal Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: szkolnictwo wyższe; parametryzacja; nieposłuszeństwo obywatelskie; higher education; parametrization; civil disobedience

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the text is to show the problems associated with the process of changes in higher education, in particular parametrization that takes the academic achievements of scholars as its object. Among the reactions to that situation in academic circles, there is the attitude similar to “civil disobedience”. Examples, which are given by the authors, relate to actions that express disagreement with reality and search for ways to change it. In accordance with the conclusions of the text, this attitude is the privilege and duty of scientists.

  • Issue Year: 3/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 138-150
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish