Human rights as a paradigm of education in university

From human capital to the emancipation of the subject

Abstract

With the reduction of the welfare vocation of States and the proliferation of neoliberal capitalism, governments have fostered through education structures, an accelerated transformation of the social function of education, towards a market functionality. Boaventura de Sousa blamed this new market functionality of college to "an institutional crisis", as a result of the action of Latin American dictatorships of the past and the subsequent neoliberalism that came and continued with democracy "when university was placed at the service of modern authoritarian projects, opening to the private sector the production of University public goods and forcing public universities to compete under unfair conditions in the emerging market of university services”.