TY - Type of reference TI - Curricular developments in European higher education: a legal point of view on the “so-called” process of democratization AU - Xavier Fressoz AU - Jean-Marc Lange AU - Muriel Guedj AB - 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. DO - 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1118 JF - Educations KW - Actie welfare State, network society, governance, functionalism, coordination skills, open method of coordination, soft law, soft law, direct applicability, hierarchy of norms, European Union, knowledge industry, human capital, higher education, democratization, massification, curriculum, coherence, meritocracy, reciprocity, individual motivation, individual responsibility, key skills, État social actif, société en réseau, gouvernance, fonctionnalisme, compétences de coordination, méthode ouverte de coordination, soft law, droit mou, applicabilité directe, hiérarchie des normes, Union européenne, industrie de la connaissance, capital humain, enseignement supérieur, démocratisation, massification, curriculum, cohérence, méritocratie, réciprocité, motivation individuelle, responsabilité individuelle, compétences clés, L1 - https://www.openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/iste_edu23v7n1_b.pdf LA - en PB - ISTE OpenScience DA - 2024/03/14 SN - 2632-590X TT - Évolutions curriculaires de l’enseignement supérieur européen : Un point de vue juridique sur le processus « dit » de démocratisation UR - https://www.openscience.fr/Curricular-developments-in-European-higher-education-a-legal-point-of-view-on IS - Issue 1 VL - 7 ER -