The Status Quo, Imponderables of Change, and Evaluation: Between Higher Education Policy and Academic Discourse

Abstract: In this article, we discuss various issues regarding the contemporary reform of science and higher education in Poland, which are constructed and sustained by academics in media discourse. In the performed analyses we refer to the critical and post-Foucauldian studies on the discursive aspects of change in higher education. We propose that the connections between discursive factors, events and social changes be crystallized in the processes of their media problematization. In the space of public discourse and in the forms of the problematization of the reform of higher education, we sought the knowledge, concepts and classification rules that set the discursive framework of the change experienced by the academic community. The research has shown that this framework goes beyond the polarization of positions, that is, beyond the criticism or affirmation of neoliberal reforms. On the basis of the performed analyses we reconstructed three types of internally diversified and non-dichoto.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3093

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: The Status Quo, Imponderables of Change, and Evaluation: Between Higher Education Policy and Academic Discourse ; volume:20 ; number:1 ; day:27 ; month:01 ; year:2019 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 20, Heft 1 (27.01.2019)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Chomik, Dominik ; Ostrowicka, Helena

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-20.1.3093
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022011409593785508740
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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