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Through this essay we seek to shed light on higher education from a critical perspective. As a metaphor, the life of Fridtjof Nansen –a norwegian artic explorer legend- is payed tribute with no other aim but to examine the weaknesses and, therefore, the challenges that higher education institutions...

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Main Author: Hernández Beltrán, Juan Carlos
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Spanish
Published: NÚCLEO DE ESTUDIOS EDUCACIONALES Y SOCIALES - FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS 2018
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Online Access:https://ojs2.fch.unicen.edu.ar/ojs-3.1.0/index.php/espacios-en-blanco/article/view/27-2
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Summary:Through this essay we seek to shed light on higher education from a critical perspective. As a metaphor, the life of Fridtjof Nansen –a norwegian artic explorer legend- is payed tribute with no other aim but to examine the weaknesses and, therefore, the challenges that higher education institutions are facing today. To gain some knowledge on how HEI (higher education institutions) work as organizations we choose some theories and models, such as the path dependency due to the fact that this theoretical framework is useful to handle an important issue about the ways HEIs are developed across the time. Apart from this theory, we take advantage of the policy agenda setting, released by Baumgartner & Jones, to explain to what the extend the HEIs are considered through the lens of politics attention. A través de este ensayo intentamos ofrecer una mirada crítica general sobre el estado por el que atraviesa la educación superior. Nos hemos servido de una figura legendaria en el campo de la exploración polar como metáfora para poder tejer un relato sobre las debilidades y, por tanto, desafíos a los que debe enfrentarse la universidad. Asimismo, nos hemos apoyado en los modelos teóricos de path dependency (dependencia del camino) a partir del cual se puede explicar el distinto rumbo que siguen las universidades en tanto que organizaciones; otra teoría de la que nos hemos servido es la elaborada por Baumgartner & Jones (1991) sobre el establecimiento de agendas políticas (puntuacted equilibria) que permite conocer el proceso en virtud del cual algunas cuestiones relevantes no se incorporan en las agendas políticas de reforma.