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00 SES 05.1, Keynote Dieter Lenzen: „University of The World“ – a Cornerstone in an Era of Risk
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What will the university and institutions of higher education throughout the world look like in 10 or 20 years? Will they be vocational institutions based upon the most common, that is, utilitarian Anglo-American, model? If so, will they be open to entire single generations? Or will they promote top research designed to supply the industrial sector with new product ideas, innovations, and top personnel, making them institutions for a small elite? Is there a chance that the world's universities may (once again) become authentic educational institutions with the express purpose of forming individual personality, of cultivating citizens of the world prepared to assume social responsibility? Will these be limited to an educational elite, or can they serve entire generations of young people on all continents? Will, can, or should there be but one kind of university or extensive diversity in the tertiary sector, or post-secondary system? And above all, what is desirable? Which view of higher education will best serve the future of humankind in a unified world? What can we expect if (as yet) very different systems begin to resemble one another? Which model will prove dominant? Who will profit and who will not? What would need to be done to prevent a (perhaps not entirely) arbitrary dynamic from leading the utilitarians to victory in a global university system?
The German university system and continental European post-secondary education are facing fundamental transformation, a process which has to some extent already begun. It was initiated by phenomena such as the Bologna Process, a reform of European universities which seemed at first to result from an exclusively European bid for unity in higher education but which must be seen as part of globalization in the entire post-secondary system in various regions of the world. By adapting certain aspects of the Anglo-American higher education system, the Bologna Process as a fundamental reform of the European university system extends well beyond Europe. It induces continental Europe to espouse views of the tertiary sector which have already gained a foothold in North America, parts of Asia, and even in some of the emerging countries of other continents.
This process of globalization is happening at a rapid pace, without the benefit of international oversight by democratically legitimated organizations. In fact, postsecondary education is essentially governed by a view of education as a commodity. Presumably, this process will accelerate so much in the next one to two decades that educational systems based on other traditions will virtually disappear.
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00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
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Network 8. Research on Health Education
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Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
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Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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