Worldviews and Quality in Higher Education: a dichotomy between productivity and social responsibility
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https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v2i10.231Keywords:
Higher education, Quality in higher education, Conceptualizations of higher education, Neoliberalism, Social welfare state,Abstract
This paper addresses and analyzes concepts that have been often used by important stakeholders to refer to challenges and to quality in higher education. The aim is to identify the conceptualizations of quality in higher education that underlie the use of different concepts such as efficiency and equity. Based on publications by important multilateral organizations, these terms are correlated with the conceptualizations of higher education and, at the political level, with two major contemporary socioeconomic models: neoliberalism and social welfare state. Finally, two ideological tendencies for the understanding of quality in higher education are presented: quality as productivity and quality as social responsibility.
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