Scholars in the Nineties: Actors, Subjects, Spectators or Hostages?
<span>Dr. Gil questions the role played by Mexican university academics in the transformation of higher education during the nineties. After outlining the general context of change and its importance, the author proposes avoiding the false dichotomy between restoring the past or installing...
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Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
2000-05-01
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| description | <span>Dr. Gil questions the role played by Mexican university academics in the transformation of higher education during the nineties. After outlining the general context of change and its importance, the author proposes avoiding the false dichotomy between restoring the past or installing, without reflective mediation, a schematic future. He suggests taking into consideration the current national academic body composed of several generations of scholars. Three phases are established in terms of the modification of academic activities during the last decades of the twentieth century, and the changes in the level of higher education are considered. Dr. Gil asks if the academics have been actors, subjects, spectators or hostages-both in regard to regulations governing their activity and in the modifications of university processes and structure. The essay ends by proposing a general agenda for research in the field of university studies, and emphasizes two problems: the need for a detailed description of the type and depth of changes, and the definition of the academic as a central actor in institutional life. <br /></span> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e3001f1b6be741a48351f57758896c3f2022-12-21T23:44:59ZengUniversidad Autónoma de Baja CaliforniaRevista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa1607-40412000-05-012119Scholars in the Nineties: Actors, Subjects, Spectators or Hostages?Manuel Gil Antón0Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa<span>Dr. Gil questions the role played by Mexican university academics in the transformation of higher education during the nineties. After outlining the general context of change and its importance, the author proposes avoiding the false dichotomy between restoring the past or installing, without reflective mediation, a schematic future. He suggests taking into consideration the current national academic body composed of several generations of scholars. Three phases are established in terms of the modification of academic activities during the last decades of the twentieth century, and the changes in the level of higher education are considered. Dr. Gil asks if the academics have been actors, subjects, spectators or hostages-both in regard to regulations governing their activity and in the modifications of university processes and structure. The essay ends by proposing a general agenda for research in the field of university studies, and emphasizes two problems: the need for a detailed description of the type and depth of changes, and the definition of the academic as a central actor in institutional life. <br /></span>http://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/21Académicosprofesión académicaeducación superior. |
| spellingShingle | Manuel Gil Antón Scholars in the Nineties: Actors, Subjects, Spectators or Hostages? Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa Académicos profesión académica educación superior. |
| title | Scholars in the Nineties: Actors, Subjects, Spectators or Hostages? |
| title_full | Scholars in the Nineties: Actors, Subjects, Spectators or Hostages? |
| title_fullStr | Scholars in the Nineties: Actors, Subjects, Spectators or Hostages? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scholars in the Nineties: Actors, Subjects, Spectators or Hostages? |
| title_short | Scholars in the Nineties: Actors, Subjects, Spectators or Hostages? |
| title_sort | scholars in the nineties actors subjects spectators or hostages |
| topic | Académicos profesión académica educación superior. |
| url | http://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/21 |
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