UNIWERSYTET W SYSTEMIE EDUKACJI ORAZ PRZESTRZENI SPOŁECZNO-KULTUROWEJ
University in education system and the socio-cultural area

Summary/Abstract: The University as an institution and the educational environment was the undisputed dominant in any education system of the first half of the twentieth century. The crisis of the university under the pressure of totalitarianisms, various ideologies and finally globalization referred to, organizational and institutional solutions, but not the very idea of an education at university. Other competing path of university education for elite or mass education (after high-school certificate) has become an ad hoc solution corresponding to the pulse of globalization and social pressures on universal access to academic education. However, both the ideas of the university and the institutional university developed and achieved auto-adaptive capacities in various socio-cultural areas, in contrast to Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the wider space of the Anglo-Saxon. It seems, however, that despite of the primacy of science in the modern vision of the world (including vision of a human being) is worth to design education systems having in mind the following reflection: factory (big industrial plant) dates back about 170 years, and today is a relic, a supermarket is a prospect only about 40 years old and is competing with trade via the internet, while the university is over 900 years old and there are many indications that it will survive.

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