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This paper critically assesses the discourse that justifies the latest educational reforms in European and Spanish higher education. It is presented as a techno-scientific discourse that attempts to support one of the most important current practices of subjectivity -the educational one- using a particular definition of psychology that forget the fact of the irreducible plurality of psychological practices and knowledges. This paper aims thus to make a double critical assessment. On the one hand, about the rhetorical use of psycopedagogic knowledge as scientific (indisputable) support for the reforms. On the other hand, about the assumption that there is a well definite discipline (Psychology) which is unified, scientifically established and able to offer that support. The paper consider also the current socio-cultural scenario of globalization and neoliberalism as a context that makes sense, within the ideology of entrepreneurship, such use of Psychology as a scientific guarantor of education reform. Special emphasis is placed on the promotion of subjectivity linked to that ideology, which requires individuals gifted with flexibility, self-monitoring skills and full responsibility for their fate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I am exploring the criticism of the University-Academy contained in the books of sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean Claude Passeron, and I analyze the also critical approaches to the University-Corporation in the work of Stanley Aronowitz and other academic researchers of the so called "academic capitalism". I place these criticisms in relation to professional and student movements of the 70. I use them by the questioning of the ongoing transformation of the European University, known as Bologna Process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper brings a reflection, from a pedagogical point of view, about the changes in the European educational area according to the Bologna Process. Regarding the discursive elements as well as the methodological proposals derived from the educational change, an analysis of the transformation of the educational model in the university is presented. This analysis also includes the educational changes produced in the teaching activity, the relationship between teachers and students, in addition to the impact that those changes have produced in the dynamic or the work load in the classroom. From a critical point about the discourse, the text is organized regarding to what the new languages are improving, hiding or discrediting to establish how to rethink the teaching and learning question in the new educational frame in Higher Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]