@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1118, 

TITLE={Curricular developments in European higher education: a legal point of view on the “so-called” process of democratization}, 
  
AUTHOR={Xavier Fressoz
, Jean-Marc Lange
, Muriel Guedj, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Educations}, 
	
VOLUME={7}, 

NUMBER={Issue 1}, 
	
YEAR={2024}, 

URL={http://www.openscience.fr/Curricular-developments-in-European-higher-education-a-legal-point-of-view-on}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1118}, 
	
ISSN={2632-590X}, 
	
ABSTRACT={In a knowledge-based economy, the field of higher education is in high demand. This is to ensure a strong production capacity for globally competitive innovations. This geo-economic context upsets educational issues by requiring citizens to raise their level of skills and knowledge in a logic of performance. This study tends to show how the European Union relies on curricula to transform the democratization of higher education into a process of selection of human capital. It tends to show that curricular fragmentation is a strategy that draws its legitimacy from the meritocratic fiction, favoring in the background a massification of qualified human resources in a soft power perspective of the European model of the knowledge society.}}