Representing “University Education” in the Horizon of the Concept of Sustainable Development and Security Discourse

Konstantin Maltsev,Anni Maltseva,Larisa Binkovskaya,A.D Nazarov

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202129505003

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The relevance of linking the concept of sustainable development and the security discourse reveals the possibility of believing that education is a prerequisite for ensuring that “sustainable development” goals become a reality. The university has a twofold task: first, to produce knowledge that meets the demands of our time, i.e. technical knowledge, and second, to form human capital, to train specialists capable of the practical application of instrumental knowledge. The initial orientation of the concept of “sustainable development” towards a global perspective: the representation of reality in an economic paradigm, i.e., totally determined by the “logic of capital”, “monocausal economic logic”, determines the criteria by which the quality of human capital, its price, and efficiency of production of a standardized product are evaluated, the production of which is undertaken by the university-corporation that has replaced the classical “university of reason”, whose ontic foundations - the “Hegelian science”, the romantic “education of humanity” - are no longer valid in what is called modernity. The article demonstrates how modernity, constituted concerning a certain self-representation of the New European subject and presented in the liberal economic paradigm, predetermines both the goal-setting in determined by its representation of the development and the content and methods of the reform of the university. It is concluded that “sustainable development”, “security” and “university-corporation” are essentially connected with the representation of reality in the liberal version of the economic paradigm.

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In recent years, the "concept of sustainable development" has increasingly been interpreted in relation to, and within, the security discourse: security is assumed to be a condition of possibility for what is called "sustainable development"
The subject of our consideration is one of many options: one in which education, and especially university education, are in the focus of discussions about development and about security
It is a question of the modern representation of the connection between "sustainable development", "security" and "university" in the dominant liberal version of the economic paradigm and the specific meaning that the named "concepts", presented in this way, acquire; the subject of our research is thematized by the aspect of what happens to the university in the "global educational space", organized as a network [3]

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The "concept of sustainable development" has increasingly been interpreted in relation to, and within, the security discourse: security is assumed to be a condition of possibility for what is called "sustainable development" The possibility of such an interpretation, conditioned not so much by the content (it has changed several times over the past fifty years), as by the supposed purpose of the political programs and practical actions undertaken to implement the concept, should be studied in the aspect of its becoming reality. It is a question of the modern representation of the connection between "sustainable development", "security" and "university" in the dominant liberal version of the economic paradigm and the specific meaning that the named "concepts", presented in this way, acquire; the subject of our research is thematized by the aspect of what happens to the university in the "global educational space", organized as a network [3]

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