Anxiety and competitiveness in a high-speed context: an analysis of the relationship between globalization and university from the perspective of social acceleration
This essay develops an analysis about the processes of institutional adaptation to the phenomenon of globalization experienced by chilean universities from the perspective of social acceleration. To this end, it briefly presents the analytical framework offered by Hartmut Rosa's theory of social acceleration, and then develops the phenomenon of globalization and its effect on university institutions in Chile. The analysis is oriented fundamentally around three axes that are useful to situate the university as an entity that develops in a context of high speed and that involves situations of competitiveness, contingency and stress; the model of new public management, as a scheme of university administration oriented to the market; the curriculum, as a phenomenon that crystallizes the needs of the market and the culture of the time, transferring them to individual educational trajectories; academic performance, as a subjective indicator of institutional development that involves the internalization of the dynamics of acceleration leading to generalized phenomena of student stress and anxiety.
Salazar, D. (2024). Anxiety and competitiveness in a high-speed context: an analysis of the relationship between globalization and university from the perspective of social acceleration. Revista Némesis, (19). Retrieved from https://revistanemesis.uchile.cl/index.php/RN/article/view/74139
