No Sinecure Acting as Public Intellectual in Education

Title variants

PL

Dla intelektualisty, stanowisko w sferze edukacji to nie synekura

Abstracts

EN

The author has earlier made a plea for educators acting as public intellectuals in society to counteract still inuential neo-liberal tendencies in educational policies and practices. Against emphases on overstretched attention for measurable output and accountability in education, the aim of education in schools is formulated in terms of holistic personhood formation. Interviewing three educators in dierent phases of their carrier, it becomes clear that working in academia nowadays it is no sinecure to act as a public intellectual. The author also presents his own experiences in dierent roles, and makes clear that the instructional niche one is working in could be of utmost importance for really taking that role. To realize a change, it is, according the author, necessary to stop with too much focus on highly cited publications in academic journals, and on individual researchers instead of on research groups working collectively together in joint research programs and with societal partners.

Keywords

EN

neo-liberalism; public intellectual; forms of education; holistic personhood formation; experiences of educators

PL

neoliberalizm; intelektualista; formy kształcenia; holistyczne kształtowanie osobowości; doświadczenia pedagogów

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie
• Journal: Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 259-271

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

other

Siebren Miedema

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

• https://orcid.org/0000000219004824

Identifiers

DOI

10.54515/lcp.2021.1.259-271

Biblioteka Nauki

1853601