long since heard of MECESUP Bicentennial Undergraduate Reform. What's so terrible? Is what is still not clear and therefore we have not responded, despite having a year playing the role of guinea pig. Why? Because the reform is being designed here, in the words of "authorities", the more complex process that has been raised so far and therefore, we will reform the example of the University Undergraduate as to profiles / meshes competition and training is concerned. Come by
. What is now enrolled in our School is a curriculum, which has invested more than a few million and that no teachers and no students have much knowledge. The heart of this design is a change in our profiles and meshes, in political orientation, overt or covert, of our careers and the roots of this innovation are easily traceable ... Bologna, Tuning, World Bank, insecurity ... all based undergraduate a spiraling mass of professionals available and the need to order the production of "human resources" according to labor market needs.
Claro está que queremos una facultad con un proyecto claro y coherente. Claro que queremos una Reforma de Pregrado, pero al servicio de Chile, su gente y sus problemáticas. Es necesaria una reforma que cuestione la mercantilización en la que caen nuestras disciplinas, la Universidad y toda la educación superior. Porque lo que hoy tenemos es solo un mecanismo más que permite al mercado colarse por los rincones de la Facultad y conquistar lo que único que falta: el sentido de nuestra formación.
Como miembros Plataforma Colectiva hemos trabajado durante el año desde distintos ángulos – carreras, asamblea de delegados, comisiones y UDEFE incluso- y nos preocupan varios puntos clave de este asuntoHasta el momento and without making much noise to avoid suspicion, the ones most forum for review of our careers are the ones we use today. This is not refutable by itself - we all are to be used at the time - what matters is the complete absence of an entire social world is directly affected by our work reempeño. . Are not there other key informants to define our disciplines?
Another important point is that the very concept of competition is not known and even less critically evaluated either by teachers or by us. Seem to forget that in Europe a process even less commercial than we provoked strong protests and questions from all the estates. Unfortunately, in the Faculty of Social Sciences, nothing and nobody is doing the weight to the skills base as a criterion for the design of our careers, TECNIFAN criterion that generates knowledge skills in undergraduate and the graduate-only school here is continuing education -.
As if this were not enough, the reform process does not work very well and technocracy is again unable to take charge of a process involving the meaning of education. The consultants, for example, have no knowledge of our disciplines, which has led to a series of misunderstandings and shallow assessment of the races. Of course, the fault does not is that consultants are technocrats, make their hits, the problem lies with the relevant actors outside the process compared with the low-no direct involvement of stakeholders, the ones who can give a really deep discussion: us. Needless
account of how self-assessment surveys are remarkably similar to those of the accreditation ... Questioning these instruments in minimally our disciplines? We still think a little beyond the parameters of quality that puts the state - and already more than clear, remarkably consistent with market needs.
AND NOW, WHAT WE DO Collective Platform
As we formed on the meaning of our training over the Draft Faculty does not exist and we aspire to build, together. In view of this we propose to make an Undergraduate Reform, but from our faculty. You need to stop and discuss key policy lines of this reform, we see the faces between profs and students and be able to define minimum criteria which is based on reform.
content is necessary to fill empty concepts that apparently only be charged when all cut consistency. It is necessary that our participation as students and scholars no longer merely informative and bureaucratic. We need to assume as political actors responsible for this process to be taken as an example for the University and lift positions. Let us not in the spaces just to "know what happens" and thus legitimize the process with pure silence ...
new disciplines become necessary for a new university and a new country ... What happens in a precedent Social more for a whole sense reform in Chile and so throughout higher education. Recall that a decree hovering at the University according to which there are 4 years for the implementation of reforms, do we sit wait?
The commodification of the direction of the University is taking hold in Social ... to project scenarios, let us by now.
