Neoliberalism’s Paradoxical Effect and European Doctoral Education Reforms in Post-socialist Europe

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v12i9" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v12i9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/ce.v12i9" target="_blank" >10.14288/ce.v12i9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Neoliberalism’s Paradoxical Effect and European Doctoral Education Reforms in Post-socialist Europe

Original language description

Building on examples from post-socialist Central Europe, this article addresses changes in European higher education policy and examines the ‘paradoxical effect’ (Foucault 2008) of neoliberal educational reforms on the doctoral level. We consider how economically driven policies oriented at building Europe’s knowledge economy and market effectiveness, created possibilities for subjectification related to the extension of individual freedom – an aspect of neoliberalism that Foucault juxtaposed to other forms of governmentality. Drawing on our positioning as doctoral supervisors in the Polish and Czech academia during the period of intensive institutional restructuring, we illustrate how European higher education reforms opened the doors of doctoral education to practitioners-doctoral researchers who found themselves in the unique position to critically illuminate covert socio-economic and political mechanisms of their practice. We consider the potential of critical doctoral pedagogy methodologically informed by Foucault’s concept of practical critique (1984), to create the conditions of possibility for the construction of subjectivity and emergence of new knowledges at the intersection of practical, academic and personal life trajectories under the conditions of neoliberal domination.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-24879S" target="_blank" >GA16-24879S: Leaders and architects of educational sciences and their conceptions of university teaching</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Critical Education

ISSN

1920-4175

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CA - CANADA

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1-19

UT code for WoS article

000647472900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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