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Academia in the Grip of the Wolf and Its Utopia
Minerva ( IF 3.2 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-17 , DOI: 10.1007/s11024-021-09449-2
Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik 1
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In 2015, Willem Halffman and Hans Radder published in Minerva a paper, in which they diagnosed that our universities are colonized by “The Wolf of management.” Using the example of the reforms afflicting the Polish academic world, I show that this colonization has intensified, and apart from the processes described in the aforementioned paper, it brought consequences that have changed academic culture: research is subjected to publication policy, many academic activities are treated as a hobby, researchers must be in a stand-by mode to react quickly to new regulations, and responsibility for the institutional prestige is collective. I argue that the attempts to reduce research results into numbers and algorithms stem from a quest for objectivity and a mistrust of academics’ (and the Wolf’s) ability to pass fair judgments. The Wolf tries to realize a utopian dream: the building of a structure that by necessity secures the productivity of research, which in turn brings the prestige of institutions, ultimately measured by rankings. Yet, prestige is not an epistemic but rather a political value, and when academics are forced to aim at prestige, vital academic values are endangered. Any efficient resistance to the Wolf requires grassroots work on the part of academics. By reconsidering the nature of research and education as well as their role in society, academics might be able to develop viable alternatives to the “productivist university.” This requires cooperation with broader society. As such, the alternative of either remaining in the ivory tower or submitting to the Wolf is a false dilemma.



中文翻译:

狼的控制下的学术界及其乌托邦

2015年,Willem Halffman和Hans Radder在Minerva发表在一篇论文中,他们诊断出我们的大学被“管理之狼”所殖民。以影响波兰学术界的改革为例,我表明这种殖民化已经加剧,除了上述论文中描述的过程之外,它还带来了改变学术文化的后果:研究受到出版政策的约束,许多学术活动被视为一种爱好,研究​​人员必须处于待命状态才能对新法规做出快速反应,并且对机构声望的责任是集体的。我认为,将研究结果简化为数字和算法的尝试源于对客观性的追求以及对学者(和狼队)通过公平判断的能力的不信任。狼试图实现一个乌托邦式的梦想:建立一个结构,以确保研究的生产力,这反过来又带来了机构的声望,最终以排名来衡量。然而,声望不是一种认知价值,而是一种政治价值,当学术界被迫以声望为目标时,重要的学术价值就会受到威胁。任何对狼的有效抵抗都需要学术界的草根工作。通过重新考虑研究和教育的性质以及它们在社会中的作用,学术界或许能够开发出“生产主义大学”的可行替代方案。这需要与更广泛的社会合作。因此,要么留在象牙塔中,要么屈服于狼,这是一个错误的困境。最终通过排名来衡量。然而,声望不是一种认知价值,而是一种政治价值,当学术界被迫以声望为目标时,重要的学术价值就会受到威胁。任何对狼的有效抵抗都需要学术界的草根工作。通过重新考虑研究和教育的性质以及它们在社会中的作用,学术界或许能够开发出“生产主义大学”的可行替代方案。这需要与更广泛的社会合作。因此,要么留在象牙塔中,要么屈服于狼,这是一个错误的困境。最终通过排名来衡量。然而,声望不是一种认知价值,而是一种政治价值,当学术界被迫以声望为目标时,重要的学术价值就会受到威胁。任何对狼的有效抵抗都需要学术界的草根工作。通过重新考虑研究和教育的性质以及它们在社会中的作用,学术界或许能够开发出“生产主义大学”的可行替代方案。这需要与更广泛的社会合作。因此,要么留在象牙塔中,要么屈服于狼,这是一个错误的困境。通过重新考虑研究和教育的性质以及它们在社会中的作用,学术界或许能够开发出“生产主义大学”的可行替代方案。这需要与更广泛的社会合作。因此,要么留在象牙塔中,要么屈服于狼,这是一个错误的困境。通过重新考虑研究和教育的性质及其在社会中的作用,学术界或许能够开发出可行的替代“生产主义大学”的方案。这需要与更广泛的社会合作。因此,要么留在象牙塔里,要么屈服于狼,这是一个错误的困境。

更新日期:2021-07-18
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