Abstract

HERRERA LLAMAS, Jorge Antonio. ETHICS, EQUITY AND MERITOCRACY IN THE COMMODIFICATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN COLOMBIA. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.1, pp.8-17. ISSN 1657-4702.

The article analyzes the behavior of higher education in the context of the market economy from its economic guidelines and from the moral and ethical values taking man as the central subject and therefore philosophy receptor mercantilist model in its essence. The analysis reveals the paradox between a market-centric paradigm and the anthropocentric view of education. The discussion on poverty, inequality, social justice and equity debates on redistribution, are full of euphemisms and prejudices which put the issue in a highly subjective. Postures sociological, economic, educational and even those who attribute the distribution problem as something inherent to humans inevitably associated opportunities and merit are the theoretical framework Amid a factual events the struggle for power. It uses the methodology of the Economics of Education in the analysis of the relationship enter the economic and conceiving college education as an entry and exit system. We conclude that education lost its classical value of idealized cultural wealth in human triangle that converged between its vertices the concepts of being, knowing and doing with a human being as a mediator and is affected by the concept of the commercial market economy. Meritocracy in this context is a way to hide the failure of the welfare state.

Keywords : Inequality; ethics; meritocracy; economics of education.

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