Governmentality, European Politics and the Neo-Liberal Reconstruction of German Universities

Autor/in	Liesner, Andrea
Titel	Governmentality, European Politics and the Neo-Liberal Reconstruction of German Universities
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 5 (2007) 4, S.449-459 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.2304/pfie.2007.5.4.449
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Quality Control; Educational Quality; Politics of Education; Foreign Countries; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Regional Programs; Regional Planning; Regional Cooperation; Program Implementation; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Qualitätskontrolle; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Politikfeldanalyse; Regional program; Regional programme; Regionalprogramm; Regionalplanung; Regionale Zusammenarbeit; Deutschland
Abstract	This article deals with the governmental strategies basic to the construction of the European Higher Education Area within the Bologna Process. With regard to the actual reconstruction of German universities, these strategies are verified on a structural level, in individual and collective subject relations and also in the subject matter which is to be taught and learned. The introduction of standardized quality assurance procedures, the promotion of entrepreneurial forms of subjectivation and the dividing of knowledge into functional modules are powerful instruments which combine to form a reduced understanding of what is supposed to be economic with a universal claim. Now, after the first half of the Bologna Process, some possible effects of these strategies are visible. From an educational perspective, there are two corresponding tendencies in particular which are noteworthy: while the knowledge of educational experts outside the university is devalued by a common prudentialism, educational sciences within the German universities are trivialized by structures and curricula which tend to obstruct the production of new dimensions of knowledge and to curtail the possibilities of scientific scepticism and critique. (Contains 3 notes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10