Abstract

VARGAS ARBELAEZ, Esther Juliana. The Idea of the University on Tenterhooks. Quality Management, Cognitive Capitalism, and Autonomy. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2017, n.72, pp.139-157. ISSN 0120-3916.

This paper aims to examine how the practices of quality management have threatened university autonomy and also-assuming that it is the defining feature of the university-how it has put on tenterhooks the very idea of the university in times of cognitive capitalism. For this purpose, the paper is divided into three parts. The first part examines the way quality management was inserted into the university's ambition of excellence as a teleological discourse, which consequently keeps production practices of science established under market needs. The second part reviews the theory of cognitive capitalism and its effects on science policies, marked by devices such as quality management. Finally, the last part considers the problem of autonomy as a regulatory and constitutive idea of the university and the renewal of the fight to conquer it in times of cognitive capitalism.

Keywords : Cognitive capitalism; university autonomy; quality management.

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