Abstract

ARONSON, Paulina Perla. The Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society. Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.20, pp.7-19. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article analyzes the concept of academic profession with the passage from industrial society to knowledge society as context. It places emphasis in the differences between the working skills required by industrialism and the competencies demanded by the economy of knowledge. It introduces the notion of employability competency with the purpose of showing the role it performs in the shortening of distance between education and work, the skills necessary to practice a profession and the implementation of university programs organized around the construction of social indicators that measure students' achievement according to the profession in which they are developing. Also, it explores what I have come to call the "new mode of knowledge production", as to identify how it intercedes in the socialization of new generations in teaching and academic fields. In that direction, changes in the professor's role and the classroom as gravity center of teaching are described. Finally, we present some conclusions drawn from the verdicts claiming that the university and the academic profession have converted in mere functions to the economy, both permeated by a strictly entrepreneurial ethos.

Keywords : Knowledge economy; Employability competency; Learning; New mode of knowledge production; Teaching; Academic profession.

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