Heavily bound to the business world, the university of performance seems to reduce its mission to a process of translation of knowledge into professional skills (Bellofiore, Vertova, 2018). A utilitarian, functionalist and efficiency-driven concept sustains and nourishes the academic institution, which appears not to elude the entrepreneurial governmentalization of knowledge (Paltrinieri, 2016; Pinto, 2019) that seems to be overwhelmed, both on the formative and on the scientific research side, by the managerial, quantocentric, high-per-formance ‘vision’ of the neoliberal economic order (Mauro, 2017). By giving up the Derridean declarative engagement for a university without conditions and by confining the learner, the relationship and the dissident profession of truth (Derrida, Rovatti, 2002) to the edges of its discursivity and practices, university ends up by turning into a place of unease and “dehumanization”. Moving from these premises, this study aims to recentralize the face of the human person as a “promise of creative realization” (Zambrano, 2008, p. 100), to reproblematize the pedagogically sustained idea of the university professor as a destined-vocated being and not as a merely employed-occupied one, capable of becoming aurora and of promoting – through the relationship and by overflowing from mere knowledge into the engagement of responsibility – well-being (Dato, 2019), care, and an idea of teaching as reality grasping, as intervention in the world (Freire, 2014).
Fortemente vincolata al mondo delle imprese, l’università della prestazione sembra ridurre la sua missione a un processo di traduzione della conoscenza in competenze professionali (Bellofiore,Vertova, 2018). Una visione funzionalistica, utilitaristica, efficentista sostiene e nutre l’istituzione universitaria, che sembra non sfuggire alla governamentalizzazione imprenditoriale della conoscenza (Paltrinieri, 2016; Pinto, 2019), che appare, sia dal lato formativo che della ricerca scientifica, schiacciata dalla ‘vision’ per-formante, manageriale e quantocentrica dell’ordine economico neoliberista (Mauro, 2017). Rinunciando al derridariano impegno dichiarativo per un’università senza condizioni, confinando ai bordi della sua discorsività e delle sue prassi la dissidente professione di verità (Derrida, Rovatti, 2002), l’accademia finisce per divenire luogo di malessere e “disumanizzazione”. Muovendo da queste premesse, il contributo intende ricentralizzare il volto della persona umana come “promessa di realizzazione creatrice” (Zambrano, 2008, p. 100); riproblematizzare pedagogicamente una visione del docente universitario come essere vocato-destinato – e non meramente occupato-impiegato – in grado di farsi aurora e promuovere, attraverso la relazione e il debordare dal mero sapere nell’impegno della responsabilità, una visione dell’insegnamento come afferramento della realtà, intervento sul mondo (Freire, 2014).
Oltre la tirannia della prestazione.: professare l’impegno, umanizzare pedagogicamente l’università,
Paola Martino
2025
Abstract
Heavily bound to the business world, the university of performance seems to reduce its mission to a process of translation of knowledge into professional skills (Bellofiore, Vertova, 2018). A utilitarian, functionalist and efficiency-driven concept sustains and nourishes the academic institution, which appears not to elude the entrepreneurial governmentalization of knowledge (Paltrinieri, 2016; Pinto, 2019) that seems to be overwhelmed, both on the formative and on the scientific research side, by the managerial, quantocentric, high-per-formance ‘vision’ of the neoliberal economic order (Mauro, 2017). By giving up the Derridean declarative engagement for a university without conditions and by confining the learner, the relationship and the dissident profession of truth (Derrida, Rovatti, 2002) to the edges of its discursivity and practices, university ends up by turning into a place of unease and “dehumanization”. Moving from these premises, this study aims to recentralize the face of the human person as a “promise of creative realization” (Zambrano, 2008, p. 100), to reproblematize the pedagogically sustained idea of the university professor as a destined-vocated being and not as a merely employed-occupied one, capable of becoming aurora and of promoting – through the relationship and by overflowing from mere knowledge into the engagement of responsibility – well-being (Dato, 2019), care, and an idea of teaching as reality grasping, as intervention in the world (Freire, 2014).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


