Naslov
The Clash of Humanism and Neoliberalism

Autori
Jurčević, Ružica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research – Hong Kong 2019 - Official Conference Proceedings

Urednik/ci
Iafor ; Japan

Izdavač
The International Academic Forum

Grad
Lahti

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
1-16

ISSN
2434-5881

Ključne riječi
Higher Education, University, Humanism, Neoliberalism

Sažetak
The prevailing economic ideologies that entered the European higher education in the last few decades disrupted the long tradition of so-called ‘humanistic’ ideals and values. This resulted in changing shifts from ‘learning per-se’ to ‘learning for the labor market’, which challenged everyone involved in education at the universities. While many universities welcomed the neoliberal paradigm in teaching and learning, a growing body of literature started questioning whether the superiority of this paradigm led to irreversible reduction of humanistic values such as freedom, autonomy, emancipation, etc. In an attempt to explore the relationship between humanistic and neoliberal approaches to the University and to understand the attitudes of the main actors of higher education regarding the goals and mission of university today, a study among students was conducted in 2018. This paper presents the results of this study which involved 735 students from 11 faculties from Zagreb (Croatia). The results indicate that students look at university education from a pragmatic and egocentric (self-oriented) perspective. More specifically, they see the importance of higher education in developing themselves as free and independent individuals, but fail to see the broader context of the university and its role in the society. Results also show that students from technical sciences tend to agree more with the statements that relate to neoliberal orientation of higher education and university, as opposed to students from humanities and social sciences.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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