TY  - JOUR
AU  - Luca Morini
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
IS  - 2
VL  - 2
SN  - 2578-5761
TI  - 3. The Anti-Ecological University: Competitive Higher Education as Ecological Catastrophe
DO  - 10.3726/PTIHE022020.0003
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1169709
N2  - The article aims at critiquing the current competitive framing which is shaping higher education policies and discourse at an international level. The argument initially takes an historical and genealogical approach to trace the roots of this framing to ideological misinterpretations of evolutionary theory and ecology, and to the influence of eugenics in the framing of educational policy. The article then uses a systems theory lens to articulate the negative impact of competitive dynamics in global education on an ecosystemic level, focusing on a “deecologization” of the two dimensions of time and space in the lives of university students and staff. Finally, the article concludes suggesting the necessity of an imaginative reecologization of thought as a precondition for any sustainable change in Higher Education philosophy and policy.
KW  - ecology, competition, Higher Education, anti-ecological
ER  -