concretize what we raised in yesterday's post, note that the main structural change in the current university in Spain, or at least the first exchange obvious and novel, have led to the creation of new agencies for assessing the quality of university faculty from those applying internally for each university, to those that centralize this control when enabled credit or for future positions of officials or hired. Its function is to evaluate explicitly (measure valued) one thing that can be defined in many ways: the quality teachers not only candidates but graduate and postgraduate degrees. This function, thus expressed, it seems reasonable in general, because of course nobody wants to situations that might be unfair to both students and society. But the first element arises of suspicion when looking at the language of many documents and resolutions of the quality agencies and tested their clearly accusatory tone (in the criminalization of political power line from the S11 by almost everyone and especially evident in the current law Spain SINDE and bank foreclosures.) Is chides the teacher or teachers to make useful and productive things for society to be productive . Imposed even as we said yesterday, research methodologies, themes, or a particular type of intellectual profiles on candidates. But also, for example, crashes that values \u200b\u200bboth the management, ie positions that require the candidate to be part of the class "policy" of his college, or have conducted research projects for funding (when service, which is the case now more common in Spain) ultimately depends also on the decision of political positions inside and outside of each university . So shocking that we know comes to prevail when it denied or granted a positive accreditation in many cases (perhaps not all), without the much-vaunted be published in journals of impact comes to counter these "policy gaps" in the resume of someone who has devoted mainly to teach and publish. These are top-down modes of direct, from control of the evaluation of teachers, how they are shaping and positioning groups and individual teachers within the university structure. Now interested in highlighting the nature sacred and magical fetish with the results of positive evaluations of teachers are shaping the new shape of the structure and the new (or old) power relationships and influences.
Accreditation is a kind of baptism that God grants the "Quality" through intermediaries (agencies, quality assessment). A false god, in line with what he denounced Feuerbach, is filled by the projections and human interests, too human men. Thus, the privileged are the holy oil spill of quality, having been established by them, can continue its momentum in the position in the networks of the university structure. Quality is an obsession that is loved and that you try not to see or verbalize the network of power and influence within the university and outside links (political parties, trade unions, business groups, banks) whose reflection is. The quality meets certain interests (power, political, economic) and a form of society (market). Accreditation is a sacred coating receiving candidates and increasing its aura of power and strengthens its position reinforcing the structure also to the structure against dangerous changes. So, indirectly, the market (see previous post) endorses and punishes those who take refuge in its influence, those who adapt their habitus that required by it. Be considered a teacher or researcher (or qualifications) and symbolic quality is being raised by service to the market (economic power in collusion with the political), to the extent that promote research types and topics, as stated in according to their interests. The quality, as currently understood and we have shown in abundance over previous post and will continue to develop, especially the conversion certifies Teacher into commodities, conversion of which now depends on the old social prestige was once the intellectual itself without college. Donation is a sort of funny but in exchange for the reduction and objectification of the teacher. Paradoxically, to enjoy the teacher can now be denied. Now given the former power but refuses to function as an intellectual in the old style. In this is evidenced to date in Spain. It is a statement that an ideologically fits a mercantile structure in the new university in which both economic and political power outside the university profit. The teacher receives her old prestige but in return for this concession, for providing it or knowing it to be endorsing. You play, therefore, two worlds, the rationalist objectifying quantifier of bourgeois economics and market-shamanic magic of the ancient gods and priests. The university has retained its old rituals, sacred ceremonial pomp, but in fact serves and is due to a world alien to everything this principle (the market). It is true that the dynamics sacralizing fetishists and have always accompanied the world of market economy if we look at the analysis of Marx.
but concrete framing behind the rituals and symbolism of today's university post Bologna. We to understand this issue in relation to political power after the S11, more hidden under its dynamism on the one hand and on the other strongly paternalistic and authoritarian driver. Also said in previous post, the fall of the Berlin Wall has brought a new swagger on the powers in the capitalist economy to a neoliberal offensive star since the eighties. The move has been ideological, in the case of the university, which we refer to as "blackmail quality." This means that is used magically, we said, this term ("quality") which represents a positive but ambiguous, as no one can define safe in very abstract terms, what is meant by quality. Is excellence, one might say, to do something, but what is the something that is supposed to do a research? Science ... but what science? Science can be done with many methods, perspectives and goals. In any case, the word "quality" can be filled with whatever they want ... the evaluators would be a kind of oracle in contact with this invisible god Quality.
is, in the new university structure, the power appears also in its old form (groups, departments), now in the form of a class of "evaluators" who exercise de facto effective control of scientific production punitive. Assess is, as explained by Foucault, Bourdieu and all progressive educational movements, control, dominate. Because I prize if you do (produce) what I want you produce. The curious thing, and should be sociological and psychological study why it is that much of the teacher assumes this without problems. Here again may well come a resonance approach explains Marxist or materialist ideology (beliefs, values, moral) as the product of a particular social structure is really a crystallization of the results in power struggles between groups (Bourdieu). As this would be a quality ideology on one hand serve a specific social and economic system, therefore it would be something essentially historical, born as a necessity at a time in the history of English education. This ideology is based on the fact that people are complex structures with different notes (Ellacuría) including psychological. The psychic is its own sphere and individual, unlike the social, but explained in constant interaction with the social (Fromm, Marcuse). Thus, certain dynamics in an institution like the university (which is social by definition) can influence and even rely on certain dynamics that we can call without too much precision (I'm not a psychologist) infantilising. In the old aristocratic dignity of university professors (mostly associated with good positions within the university, ie, professors), very dangerous because it gave her wings as a class to actively oppose the powers in the world of economics and policy, now a self-image contrasts increasingly humiliated, mutilated, reduced (which in Marxist terms might be related to an old gentleman proletarianization of college). It has begun, due to its lower power and social prestige (and therefore less able to resist) with the lowest and youth at the university level. They have been deducting a certain social and psychological capacity potentially dangerous to the political power was based on the cultural prestige in society (ie, political power was opposed to any other valid symbolically). Now, this symbolic image of noble ancestry in the consciousness of the teacher is erased (it would be very instructive, on the other hand, empirically study this important change in value given the current intellectual class in college and how they have been showing the different political groups within college age or contractual situations or functionary). Now, the effect of iron control of their scientific and power to give or project grants (on behalf of the practical utility of their research), the teacher is experiencing more defenseless against something that overflows and to be gigantic at times. Has internalized the discourse of quality, resulting in fact the university classroom control and thought. This has also supported a parallel to the spray atomization within society of all against all (indeed, now the competition is a great value that guarantees supposedly quality) that isolates the subject turned mentally to a sort of immature child or situation. We live this as a loss of power that ultimately affects the feeling of self-worth as a class or social group. Thus, the structural basis parallel to this shift in consciousness would be a change in status within the social whole. Would this change in status and conditions imposed by political power and its agents outside evaluators of the quality which has generated a new mood and a change in ideas and beliefs of the teachers as well as in its self-perception. Now it needs to be enshrined in the name of quality, we said, to recoup some of the old power. But to the extent that the teacher is asked to delegate the magic they once belonged to him in quality agencies, the teacher knows and feels mutilated, humiliated, subjected. His personal power, from now, symbolically linked to new judges and new gods who demand a new form of obedience. Consequently, the teacher loses its personal quality, uniqueness, and is being diluted, dissolving and disappearing into a whole, as the drop in the ocean of Nirvana, in a typical dynamic gnostizante. A solution in the structure that psychologically violent. Prof. person disappears as such (now we are "agents of production" and "knowledge workers" for a student-client who learns just in front of a computer) and becomes a class or group composed impersonal only of quantifiable (measurable) and atomized. It is the social and psychological objectification of the teacher, his new live ethereal and impersonal in a whole that does not control.
And to make sure they never perceived this unfortunate situation is imposed on the teacher, punitively, the positivist model of science of isolated facts, not fully explained, a mere knowledge contemplative and, at best, reflective. Reflexive means that in thinking only duplicates the appearance or surface of events, the mask of reality. This equates to an intellectual castration teachers when they think they can only play as in a mirror, because (of Hence perhaps the increasing predominance of descriptive studies to establish causality resign). It is this type of thought and science that are awarded by the evaluators to look forward to a model of science without theory (against all scientific tradition post Galileo).
Within the dynamics briefly pointed out, the number that represents a teacher, whose prestige was before qualitative, now is its production, but provided that such production is translated into money. In other words, a better teacher as it is able to generate marketable goods (technology) that contribute to the capitalist cycle-Money-Commodity More Money. It is, as with the proletariat as Marx, a wealth generated but not touching and that he was out of hand. The commercialization of university this means is, indeed, the conversion of knowledge (before the subject of social prestige, cultural capital that could nevertheless challenge and challenge certain social elements) in money (economic capital). A fetish for another course. But the problem is that with the money and the process of reproduction, Marx already said, there is an abstraction to the crashing and human sacrifice. The man is sacrificed in favor of production.
in capturing and conversion of knowledge and science by the company (ideology and corporate structure), now we are asked to assess the student ("Results") through its transfer to society. ("Society" is equivalent here to "Business"). If you look at the new terminology is easy to check their corporate source ("productive agents," "knowledge management", "transfer of results, investment, skills, etc.).. As a business jargon, it could be accused of being a practicing dehistoricization jargon, the neglect of historical and political component of education. That is, in the terminology used as a fetish as happened with the term "quality" will hide the fabric of social relations that is behind all scientific or educational process. What one has achieved, the quality of what he has done, depends on its adaptation, movements and relationships in a concrete structure that is granted, funds and credits.
rationality is promoted trap in which authors such as Bourdieu and results are not considered by the market ( transferred ), which precisely study the registration of social inertia in the language and beliefs as well as knowledge (as of habitus ). All this is forgotten in a language that aspires to appear neutral and sell calculística rigor and methodology. Against Bourdieu, the mechanistic view of the man who develops skills and assume as valid knowledge of the rules of their society is implicit in the new terminology of science and higher education. Terminology whose quality is put on sterile neutrality and impartiality, but whose complicity with a specific pattern of historical reality is evident. The thought and science taken in bourgeois consciousness (Lukacs) the nature of contemplative knowledge, quantifiable and formal. Thus, the qualitative (more ambiguously dangerous) is being diluted, the contents were not (care if you said, not the content of an article), thanks to the imposition of a measure of scientific production undoubtedly partially adequate, but not perfect or worthy of sanctification. The problem is that the statistical tools (ISI) are used punitively, as if from the divine word of god elusive quality.
The world (university) is becoming an interchangeable element structure (which once were teachers), measurable, which also disappears bourgeois pole of subjective and that religion is becoming even Gnostic (reality is High above us, outside the world) while the world we inhabit is depersonalized (human relations between teachers, etc.). Human relations also disappear in more subjective and qualitative aspects and we all become even more rivals. The elusive divinity and their agents (rating agencies, entrepreneurs, ministry) stands over us, hiding behind their veil of bureaucratic deciding about our lives. And we must comply. A Quality God remains undefined except in quantitative terms, and formal behavioral mentioned. It's the end of the nuances and thought, which is now only allowed to be contemplative, or measuring passive spectator fragmented and isolated matter (empiricism, positivism) and hopes notwithstanding the grace of God gnosis (the adoption of a quality agency.) In this tear university professor dies in Spain. The nature of the fatality of a process meekly accepted all the humiliated teacher points to what Freire called a "magical consciousness", a map of religion in the worst sense of the word, ie, that of giving everything to God and take it away from humans and reality. Gnostizante dynamic and, indeed, capitalism, because it allows the world (the university itself) is crushed to produce endless. It is said that this is made towards the usefulness and rationality of the university system, but in reality prevails futility and irrationality. Thus, both moral and capitalist structure have been installed at all, victorious in the English university, so it is no longer college, but something else.
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