Meritocracy Disorientation and Rethinking of Higher Education in the World of Work Perspective
Meritocracy pursues the primacy of meritocracy,and its logic of competition,efficiency,control and exchange breeds many pitfalls,creates winners and losers dichotomies,and reinforces the instrumental connection between the world of work and higher education.The work ethic and aesthetics of the world of work have in turn exacerbated the pervasiveness of meritocracy,which in turn has triggered a crises of meritocracy disorientation in higher education.Under the coercion of meritocracy,higher education has been instrumentalized in the world of work,becoming a kind of competitive capital,giving rise to such paradoxes as"learning for work"and"professionalism as work",breaking the myth which allows students to obtain decent and satisfactory jobs through meritocracy,and giving rise to the alienated role and function of the university as an arbiter of opportunities and a classification machine,which has highlighted the"significance"of the university diploma as a functional"identification".To get out the disorientation,firstly,we should break the shackles of"instrumentalization"and clarify the mission of higher education from its origin.Secondly,we should identify the shackles of"meritocracy"and rethink the significance and value of education and work in transcending meritocracy.Finally,we should get rid of the dilemma of"alienation",promote the resonance between the world of work and higher education,and return to the pursuit of a better life.
world of workhigher educationmeritocracydisorientation
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