Abstract

GARRIDO GOMEZ, Alejandro. Quality or relevance? Positions in higher education. Rev. de Inv. Educ. [online]. 2014, vol.7, n.2, pp.127-135. ISSN 1997-4043.

In modern societies, higher education, knowledge and society generate relationships that produce and reproduce certain kind of knowledge through university courses or curricula, of which the production and reproduction of technical skills in students is generated. The question what kind of knowledge is producing and reproducing? And, likewise, what interests answers? This article attempts to put into consideration the reader relationships that are embedded in the processes of production and reproduction of knowledge generated by universities. So the concept of "quality", which is framed in a jerarquizadora business concept and standardizingit also investigates and proposes to go beyond this concept relying on the obstinacy of education.

Keywords : Higher Education; knowledge; company; university; education quality.

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