Higher Education is both oppressive and oppressed in its current state! During the last decade, in the increasing frequency of my academic travels and in the events of my own professional trajectory, I have been facing those negative aspects of the academic life, over and over again. In different countries, I have met PhD students oppressed by the pressure to strictly follow the methodological and theoretical framework of analysis of their supervisors. I have witnessed their passionate striving for the intellectual right of exploring new ways of doing research. I have seen them systematically downsized by the rigid system of rules in place almost everywhere in order to have their dissertations accepted. The same form of oppression is in place when one wants to have her articles published. The existing monological and evidence-based way to define what is “scientifically relevant” is the major oppressive force against the knowledge construction.

Marsico, G. (2018). Higher education: oppression or liberation? In J. Valsiner, A. Lutsenko, and A. A. Antoniouk (eds.) Sustainable Futures for Higher Education: Cultivating Knowledge Makers. Cultural Psychology of Education, 7, (pp. ix-xi), Cham, CH: Springer;

Marsico Giuseppina
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Higher Education is both oppressive and oppressed in its current state! During the last decade, in the increasing frequency of my academic travels and in the events of my own professional trajectory, I have been facing those negative aspects of the academic life, over and over again. In different countries, I have met PhD students oppressed by the pressure to strictly follow the methodological and theoretical framework of analysis of their supervisors. I have witnessed their passionate striving for the intellectual right of exploring new ways of doing research. I have seen them systematically downsized by the rigid system of rules in place almost everywhere in order to have their dissertations accepted. The same form of oppression is in place when one wants to have her articles published. The existing monological and evidence-based way to define what is “scientifically relevant” is the major oppressive force against the knowledge construction.
2018
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