For Carlos Fajardo Fajardo *
Sons of neoliberalism neocons, have actually been trained to obey, to accept and implement the ordinances capitalism scathing. Praising and not reject are their slogans. With such attitudes schemes aim to strengthen rather than to show its weaknesses. They thought the new technicians. Literate in technology have made them a supreme totem from which they think they know in depth the world, the reality of it. De-politicized, de-socialized, individualistic and technocrats, shudder at the word confrontation. Followers of thought utensils, are altar boys regulations become authoritarian cult of education. Are baby teacher of universities: effective, efficient, bilingual automata, "all terrain" technology drivers. Dictatorship managed without complaint calls rules of university research. Sons of neoliberalism, baby teacher institutions.
In Colombia, there are large laboratories that produce them in series and reproduce exponentially. All have graduated from universities that they had to be hit Act 30, which not only promoted an aggressive privatization, but that drowned in the same substance by forcing them to take an accelerated plan for accreditation in line with global market requirements. As a result, curricula were cleared, adjusted the curriculum to nefarious objectives and banished any project of a critical pedagogy and innovative.
In many ways, the speeches doctrinal, religious, moral and political of the first decade of the century, resembling the so-called regeneration of the Conservative Republic imposed in the country 1880 to 1930, bonded Inland Revenue and partisan, religious and moral Manichaeism, conservatism, ideology, imperial and papal, education controls, censorship disguised obstacles to the modern critical-creative, intellectual centralism, rejecting the dissident intellectual autonomy.
All the limited achievements of university autonomy, teacher, student, intellectual and successful in the sixties to the mid-eighties, were diluted and changed by a helpful adaptation and integrated into the "new global order." The consolidation of the market economy, the power of mass media, digital technology, urbanization and mass migration, mass privatization and seriously, the trivialization of culture, are some contexts for which was developed and carried out the neo-conservative thinking last minute. As observed consequences pass critical intellectuals to baby teacher all-rounder, are adapted to being touched.
Since about 1990 a radical change has an impact on university structures. All his estates have been slowly processed. Neoliberalism caught the collective and individual freedoms were still possible in both public and private institutions. Thus, teachers, students and intellectuals came to an area of \u200b\u200bgreater control. Established an administrative language and treasurer. This went from an active reflection on the submission of management. So concepts such as efficiency, effectiveness, competitiveness, flexibility, administration and supplies, joined in the field of language education. The result is a new type of intellectual: the language faculty efficient treasurer. The so-called "generational change", ie young teachers to replace the old avant-garde intellectual criticism, and the appointment of economists and administrators in middle of academic leadership, ensuring the curriculum reforms in line with the neoliberal demands. Blow to critical work and humanistic gain for administrative work. Bureaucrats against intellectuals.
So the University is tailored to building the market demands by some theorists call "academic capitalism": an "entrepreneurial university", which means subject to the commercialization of its components. 'Capitalism academic ", which has been imposed as a central policy by the countries elite education takes as an industry, factory, university and business skills . The University is reduced to a bazaar of educational and symbolic and cultural assets, customers and shareholders (students), with workers and employees (teachers), products (the results of research, knowledge and skills) treasurers and managers, administrators (managers). In this bazaar university academic achievements of teachers are evaluated quantitatively or control, ie the amount of research products, publications, lectures, participation in events. The teacher is treated as an input, consumption and consumer object. The logic of marketing effectiveness and profitability powers dominate the territory.
Where critical autonomy of the intellectual faculty? The baby teacher give the answer: they are things of the past say, calls for a dead history, buried. In his speech to give a non-memory and yes the "now" consumable, revised. The education and training of teachers who make the technocracy something plenipotentiary, or assuming the technological modernization imposed from above, with concern ingenuity, is one of the biggest wounds in the heart of the academy. Given the proposed management thinking, compared to political and cultural debate erupts with a pragmatic relaxation, against a confrontational approach and difference, establishing a position adjustment, academic acceptance and comfort. It is the "marketization" of social, educational, succeed where the administrative dynamics of "managerialism". In this way, paranoia, self-censorship and conformity are claimed in these scenarios hypervigilance and control business competitive.
The rise of neoconservative thought and neoliberal economic globalization has contributed to creating this type of university teaching adapted and adaptable. So that the young teachers have given a role of political legitimacy, cultural and moral development of hegemonic regimes. Gone are the days of dissident intellectual, libertarian positions. Oh baby teacher, welcome to the future!
* Poet, essayist and professor Colombian
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