Facilitating University Education: A View From the North
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Facilitating University Education: A View From the North. / Wiewiura, Joachim Schmidt.
In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2016, p. 223-230.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Facilitating University Education: A View From the North
AU - Wiewiura, Joachim Schmidt
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In this small essay, I will reflect on Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth's arguments on the decline of educational professionalism in the United States. The purpose is to consider this loss of professionalism, and I will consider it in light of the arts and humanities in the Danish educational debate. Two reflections are presented: first, the customer relation is reversed in a Scandinavian context where students are politically demanded products rather than informed customers. This implies that universities' output serve political agendas. Second, I suggest that the Scandinavian conception of equality in welfare might entail an inexpedient side-effect when it comes to education. Equality becomes alignment rather than educative edification of individual and, in consequence, communal autonomy. This jeopardises the historically fruitful role of the Scandinavian university – and ultimately caters to a shift from edification to serving interests that are beyond the professional heart of arts and humanities in higher education.
AB - In this small essay, I will reflect on Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth's arguments on the decline of educational professionalism in the United States. The purpose is to consider this loss of professionalism, and I will consider it in light of the arts and humanities in the Danish educational debate. Two reflections are presented: first, the customer relation is reversed in a Scandinavian context where students are politically demanded products rather than informed customers. This implies that universities' output serve political agendas. Second, I suggest that the Scandinavian conception of equality in welfare might entail an inexpedient side-effect when it comes to education. Equality becomes alignment rather than educative edification of individual and, in consequence, communal autonomy. This jeopardises the historically fruitful role of the Scandinavian university – and ultimately caters to a shift from edification to serving interests that are beyond the professional heart of arts and humanities in higher education.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Differentiation
KW - educational professionalism
KW - equality
KW - excellence
KW - instability
KW - university
U2 - 10.1177/1474022216634700
DO - 10.1177/1474022216634700
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 223
EP - 230
JO - Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
JF - Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
SN - 1474-0222
IS - 2
ER -
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