We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
LA FLEXIBILIDAD DE LA ORGANIZACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA: UN RECORRIDO POR EL MUNDO.
- Authors
Del Carmen Farfán García, María; Navarrete Sánchez, Enrique; Villalobos Monroy, Guadalupe
- Abstract
Academic flexibility in higher education is one of the factors that has characterized change in contemporary University, as a part of the educational reform that sustains the pedagogic, cultural, politic, social and economic changes, in such way that its analysis allows us to understand its relevance as a device of integration in the dynamics of current capitalism. Bearing in mind this relevance, in order to talk about the organizational changes in universities it's important to mention the revision of the theoretical contributions that led us to consider the basis of such changes as results of flexibility. We consider flexibility in the context of neo liberalism, as an academic integration device that enables the economic liberation of the university sphere with basis in the notions of competitiveness and opportunity. This means openness and mobility of the interests, capacities and individual dispositions of the educational demand, which purpose is achieving the pedagogic ideal of a versatile man, prepared to adapt to the labour market's conditions. The theoretical contributions made possible understanding the historic development of the approach to flexibility. Different authors established the existence of different types of flexibilities related some with the internal conditions and some with the environment.
- Subjects
HIGHER education; EDUCATIONAL change; EDUCATIONAL innovations; CAPITALISM; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); NEOLIBERALISM
- Publication
Cuadernos de Educación, 2010, Vol 9, Issue 9, p193
- ISSN
1515-3959
- Publication type
Article