Tożsamość uniwersytetu w epoce niepewności

Zbyszko Melosik

doi:10.18778/2450-4491.06.03

Authors

Zbyszko Melosik Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2450-4491.06.03

Keywords:

university, uncertainty, competition, assessment, identity

Abstract

The article includes an analysis of the reconstruction of social functions of contemporary university with the category of uncertainty assumed as the axis of narration. A number of contexts were presented of creating a trajectory of uncertainty disintegrating both the identity of individual professors and the university as an institution. They include, inter alia, the creation of new forms of competition between individuals, scientific disciplines, and higher education institutions, as well as strategies of assessment which reduce the identity and activity of academics to points, strategies of permanent reporting and specific mcdonaldization of the didactic and research functions of a university. At the end, a question was posed regarding the possible ways of acting of the university and professors in the age of uncertainty.

Author Biography

Zbyszko Melosik, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Education sociologist, Full Professor, Doctor Habilitatus, Head of the Department of Sociology of Education at the Faculty of Educational Studies of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan; member of the presidium of the Committee of Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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