Human rights as a paradigm of education in university: from human capital to the emancipation of the subject

Abstract

With  the  weight  of  the  vocation  of  welfare  States  and  the  proliferation  of  neoliberal  capitalism, Governments have led, through the structures of education, an accelerated transformation of the social functionality  of  education,  towards  a  market  functionality.  Boaventura  de  Sousa  awarded  this  new functionality of the University market "to an institutional crisis", as a result of acting of Latin American dictatorships of the past and the subsequent neo-liberalism that became or continued with democracy to  "put  the  University  at  the  service  of  modernizing  authoritarian  project,  opening  production  of  the public  good  of  the  University  to  the  private  sector  and  forcing  the  public  University  to  compete  on unfair conditions in the emerging market of University services"