Titre : Curricular developments in European higher education: a legal point of view on the “so-called” process of democratization 

Auteurs : Xavier Fressoz
, Jean-Marc Lange
, Muriel Guedj,  

Revue : Educations 

Numéro : Issue 1 

Volume : 7 

Date : 2024/03/14 

DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1118 

ISSN : 2632-590X 

Résumé : 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. 

Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience