Why should we cultivate “the difference” in everyday practices of the university?

Kunce, Aleksandra

Why should we cultivate “the difference” in everyday practices of the university?

dc.contributor.author	Kunce, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.organization	Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach	en
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-09T08:10:39Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-09T08:10:39Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	The paper explores the phenomenon of the local-worldly university. Why should we cultivate “the Difference” in everyday practices of the university? The author refers to the Derridean “différance,” to the idea of wonder (το θαυμα) and the Herderean concept of Heimat. By putting these terms in the university's specific context, the author asks questions about an autonomous space for thinking and experiencing. The university cannot be homeless, unanchored or uncommitted. The more intensively the universalising procedures of the control of universities are implemented, the more we are convinced that the world does not need any global institutions of higher education and research. This is because a human being is more localised than we would be willing to admit. What is important is difference, the untranslatability of knowledge and languages, the contextual grounding of thinking and action, as well as the experience of the fragility of what is “locally human,” which makes us observe closely a local human being, attached to a place, wandering about with the notion of home, and thus dispelling his or her doubts here and now, even when they tend to recur eternally.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Aleksandra Kunce: Why should we cultivate “the difference” in everyday practices of the university?. „Higher Education Quarterly” 2022, no. 76, pp. 671– 682. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12339	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/hequ.12339
dc.identifier.issn	1468-2273
dc.identifier.uri	https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/22146
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wiley	en
dc.rights	Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/	*
dc.subject	university	en
dc.subject	difference	en
dc.title	Why should we cultivate “the difference” in everyday practices of the university?	en
dc.type	article	en

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