Tensiones emergentes en la coordinación sectorial y la economía política de los sistemas nacionales de educación superior en el capitalismo contemporáneo

José Miguel Sanhueza De la Cruz

doi:10.5354/0719-5885.2021.59077

Emerging tensions in sectoral coordination and the political economy of national higher education systems in contemporary capitalism | Revista Pedagogía Universitaria y Didáctica del Derecho

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Emerging tensions in sectoral coordination and the political economy of national higher education systems in contemporary capitalism

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José Miguel Sanhueza De la Cruz Universidad Diego Portales https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-597X

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.59077

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Abstract

This article proposes a characterization of the problem of coordination and political economy of Higher Education, in the context of the transformations in capitalism of the 21st century. For this, firstly, exposes the emergence of such problems and the “triangle of Clark” heuristics, which characterize them from the tensions and relative weights between State, markets an HE institutions. Later, some of the main changes in contemporary capitalism and their implications for each of these "vertices" are described. The centrality of markets in neoliberal modernization, globalization and the growing importance of supranational organizations, and the subsumption of knowledge creation in social relations of capitalist production, are addressed from their repercussions on the appearance of the relevant markets in higher education, the articulation of a “steering at a distance” role by the State, and the managerialization of management and institutional work within the framework of contemporary “academic capitalism”. Finally, a specific approach to the “Quality Assurance” function of higher education is proposed, as a future line of research in this framework of coordination between the State, markets and institutions.

Keywords:

Higher Education , Marketization , Evaluative State , Academic Capitalism , Clark’s Triangle

Author Biography

José Miguel Sanhueza De la Cruz, Universidad Diego Portales

José Miguel Sanhueza de la Cruz is a sociologist and Master in Management and Policy, both from the University of Chile. D. candidate in Education from Universidad Diego Portales and Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile.

E-mail: jose.sanhueza_d@mail.udp.cl

https:// orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-597X.

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Sanhueza De la Cruz, J. M. (2021). Emerging tensions in sectoral coordination and the political economy of national higher education systems in contemporary capitalism. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 8(1), pp. 305–324. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.59077