Economization of discourse on education and pedagogization of economic problems: media debate on higher education reform in Poland
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results of research into the media debate on education in the context of higher education reform in Poland, and the body of press materials comprised 884 texts.
Abstract: The article presents results of research into the media debate on education in the context of higher education reform in Poland. The body of press materials comprised 884 texts. The theoretical bas...
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01 Sep 1989
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.
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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this article, the authors locates the past two decades of changes in Polish universities in a comparative European context and argues that the major emergent parameter of higher education policy is demographics and that the remonopolization of the system by the tax-based public sector and the gradual decline of the private sector are transforming the system beyond recognition.
Abstract: The paper locates the past two decades of changes in Polish universities in a comparative European context. It shows a wider transition: from an expanding, privatized and disciplinarily divided university of the 1990s to a publicly funded, increasingly contracting and stratified university of the 2000s (and beyond). The gradual political and economic integration of Poland with the European Union has been accompanied by the gradual integration of the Polish higher education system with Western European systems. The paper argues that the major emergent parameter of higher education policy is demographics and that the remonopolization of the system by the tax-based public sector and the gradual decline of the private sector are transforming the system beyond recognition. Processes of ‘de-privatization’ or ‘re-publicization’ are gradually replacing recent processes of ‘privatization’. Powerful systemic changes in university governance and funding modes are bound to shatter the relative stability of the academic profession. After two decades of being fundamentally different due to the communist legacy (i.e. being ‘post-communist’), selected Polish universities, owing to accelerating processes of academic stratification linked to the 2009–2012 wave of reforms, have a chance to become fully blown elements of a European knowledge production landscape, with increasingly similar governance and funding regimes and the similarly research-involved academic profession.
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01 Sep 1989
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.
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"Economization of discourse on educa..." refers background in this paper
...At an empirical level, discourse was identified by a set of statements characterized by regularity within objects, concepts, modality, and discursive strategies (Foucault, 1972)....
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30 Mar 1991
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the psychology of war and the production of the self in the workplace. But their focus is on the subject of work and not on the individual.
Abstract: Preface. Introduction. PART ONE: PEOPLE AT WAR. 1. The Psychology of War. 2. The Government of Morale 3. The Sykewarriors 4. Groups at War. PART TWO: THE PRODUCTIVE SUBJECT 1. The Subject of Work 2. The Contented Worker 3. The Worker at War 4. Democracy at Work 5.The Expertise of Management 6. The Production of the Self. PART THREE: THE CHILD, THE FAMILY AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD 1. Governing Childhood 2. Normalising Chilren 3. Adjusting the Bonds of Love 4. Maximising the Mind 5. The Responsible Autonomous Family PART FOUR: MANAGING OURSELVES 1. The Therapeutic Imperative 2. Reshaping our Behaviour 3. Obliged to be Free 4. The Psychotherapy of Freedom.
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...Employers/entrepreneurs were presented as ‘truth experts’ (Rose, 1990) and social actors working for the common good....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the links between neoliberalism and globalization on the one hand, and the knowledge economy on the other, and argue that the role of higher education for the economy is seen by governments as having greater importance to the extent that higher education has become the new star ship in the policy fleet for governments.
Abstract: The ascendancy of neoliberalism and the associated discourses of ‘new public management’, during the 1980s and 1990s has produced a fundamental shift in the way universities and other institutions of higher education have defined and justified their institutional existence. The traditional professional culture of open intellectual enquiry and debate has been replaced with a institutional stress on performativity, as evidenced by the emergence of an emphasis on measured outputs: on strategic planning, performance indicators, quality assurance measures and academic audits. This paper traces the links between neoliberalism and globalization on the one hand, and neoliberalism and the knowledge economy on the other. It maintains that in a global neoliberal environment, the role of higher education for the economy is seen by governments as having greater importance to the extent that higher education has become the new star ship in the policy fleet for governments around the world. Universities are seen as a key driver in the knowledge economy and as a consequence higher education institutions have been encouraged to develop links with industry and business in a series of new venture partnerships. The recognition of economic importance of higher education and the necessity for economic viability has seen initiatives to promote greater entrepreneurial skills as well as the development of new performative measures to enhance output and to establish and achieve targets. This paper attempts to document these trends at the level of both political philosophy and economic theory.
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"Economization of discourse on educa..." refers methods in this paper
...Neither process is new to education researchers (e.g. Biesta, 2007; Höhne, 2003; Olsen & Peters, 2005; Ostrowicka, 2019; Smeyers & Depaepe, 2008; Szkudlarek, 2000)....
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...…literature using the concepts of economization of educational discourse (Szkudlarek, 2000), market instrumentalism in education (e.g. Biesta, 2007; Olsen & Peters, 2005; Potulicka & Rutkowiak, 2010), or the pedagogization of social problems (e.g. Höhne, 2003; Ostrowicka, 2019; Smeyers & Depaepe,…...
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TL;DR: In this paper, evidence-based practice and the democratic deficit of educational research are discussed. But what works and what works won't work, and why "what works" won’t work.
Abstract: Why ‘what works’ won’t work. Evidence-based practice and the democratic deficit of educational research
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"Economization of discourse on educa..." refers methods in this paper
...…in the literature using the concepts of economization of educational discourse (Szkudlarek, 2000), market instrumentalism in education (e.g. Biesta, 2007; Olsen & Peters, 2005; Potulicka & Rutkowiak, 2010), or the pedagogization of social problems (e.g. Höhne, 2003; Ostrowicka, 2019;…...
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...Neither process is new to education researchers (e.g. Biesta, 2007; Höhne, 2003; Olsen & Peters, 2005; Ostrowicka, 2019; Smeyers & Depaepe, 2008; Szkudlarek, 2000)....
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31 Jan 1966
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"Economization of discourse on educa..." refers background in this paper
...Discourse thus understood is subject to control, selection, retention, and reinforcement (Foucault, 1981; Jessop, 2008)....
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