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Publication Date: 2014-Feb
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Facing the Corporate University: The New Wave of Student Movements in Europe
Fernández, Joseba
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, v12 n1 p191-213 Feb 2014
The transformation of the historical functions and goals of the European university is producing the transition from mass university to what has been called "corporate university". With this goal, I will examine how the new functions of the university are aimed at providing services and precarious workers to the labor structure of post-Fordism in the context of the growing importance of the "knowledge-based economy". These changes have provoked a new wave of student protests. This new mobilization cycle has been based on the emergence of a new student subjectivity: the "precarious in training". However, I claim that this wave of mobilization can be explained by the characteristics of the Fordist model that still applies to the European university. This model of university in extinction has facilitated a student response that can be characterized in terms of the classical Fordist patterns of collective action. At the same time, these patterns of action are being adapted to the emergence of the post-Fordist corporate-university through specific repertoires of action.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Commercialization, Educational Change, Activism, Consciousness Raising, Knowledge Economy, Neoliberalism, Strikes, College Students, Institutional Mission, Student Attitudes, Etiology, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship, Politics of Education, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Student Reaction
Institute for Education Policy Studies. University of Northampton, School of Education, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK. Tel: +44-1273-270943; e-mail: ieps@ieps.org.uk; Web site: http://www.jceps.com
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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