TY - JOUR
T1 - La transformación de la universidad y los dispositivos de cuantificación
AU - Fardella-Cisternas, Carla
AU - Sisto Campos, Vicente
AU - Jiménez Vargas, Felipe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, PUC de Campinas. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In Chile, higher education policies have required universities to adopt management tools related to the monitoring and quantification of academic work. Accordingly, this paper presents the results of a documentary study of 95 official documents concerning academic work (Regulations, Scholarship and Grant Application Guidelines and Accreditation Application Forms) in order to understand the regulations pertaining to academic work. Discourse analysis was used to determine how these documents are used in the university environment to regulate and transform the academic work. The present study shows that management tools adopted characterize the academic work through actions such as: establish hierarchies among the multiple tasks of a faculty member and among faculty members using criteria that have not been discussed by the academic community; objectify work processes and reach consensus over them, disregarding current disputes and disagreements; omit the context of academic production creating an image of work as an individual process; and finally urge the establishment of individualizing and competitive work relationships.
AB - In Chile, higher education policies have required universities to adopt management tools related to the monitoring and quantification of academic work. Accordingly, this paper presents the results of a documentary study of 95 official documents concerning academic work (Regulations, Scholarship and Grant Application Guidelines and Accreditation Application Forms) in order to understand the regulations pertaining to academic work. Discourse analysis was used to determine how these documents are used in the university environment to regulate and transform the academic work. The present study shows that management tools adopted characterize the academic work through actions such as: establish hierarchies among the multiple tasks of a faculty member and among faculty members using criteria that have not been discussed by the academic community; objectify work processes and reach consensus over them, disregarding current disputes and disagreements; omit the context of academic production creating an image of work as an individual process; and finally urge the establishment of individualizing and competitive work relationships.
KW - Academic work
KW - Accountability
KW - Discourse analysis
KW - Management devices
KW - New public management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029577306&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1590/1982-02752017000300011
DO - 10.1590/1982-02752017000300011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029577306
SN - 0103-166X
VL - 34
SP - 435
EP - 448
JO - Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
JF - Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
IS - 3
ER -