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Globalization: From Unknown to Known? An Analysis of the Academic Debate about the Concept
Chaloupková, Barbora ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Hornát, Jan (referee)
Globalization is a concept that manages to attract both academic and mainstream attention and it became an important reference point of many contemporary conversations. However, there is a surprisingly little genealogical research on globalization. This thesis seeks to contribute in this area by analyzing part of the overall academic debate about this concept from the year 1990 to 2012 and by reconstructing the debates and arguments through which the concept was shaped. It breaks the chosen time frame in two periods (1990-2000 and 2001-2012) and conducts a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the debate in four leading academic journals, each of them grounded in different discipline. The thesis finds that key reference points of the debates about globalization in both periods of the time were the terms market and state and the relationship between them. Globalization as a phenomenon that was said to alter the nature of this relationship posed a particular challenge to social science paradigms that operated with state-centered frameworks. The key dimension in which globalization was discussed the most was in both periods the economic one; however, we also saw a rise of social dimension in the second period indicating a shift in attention beyond the economics. Furthermore, this work finds that...
The Criticism of Bologna Process in Germany
Boťová, Kateřina ; Filipová, Lucie (advisor) ; Konrád, Ota (referee)
This thesis deals with German criticism of the European higher education reforms within the so called Bologna Process. These reforms include the division of studies into two and later into three cycles, the introduction of a unified credit system and the support of mobility. Germany in particular represents a country, where the Bologna Process initiated a broad academic debate and became a subject of student protests. The paper discusses the criticism of particular goals, the overall concept of the reforms and the specifics of their implementation in Germany. It focuses on both the core of scholar criticism and the students' insight on the subject. The analysed period is bordered by the signing of the Bologna declaration in 1999 and by the year 2010, which was originally meant to be the last year of the reform process. Some academicians saw the Bologna Process as an instrument for the commercialization of higher education and a deviation from the model of W. v. Humboldt. The majority however pointed out the erroneous implementation of reforms and misapprehension of the original goals. Similar stances were also adopted by students. New bachelor's programmes were mostly criticized for their unsuitable conception and low quotas for student admission to master's programmes. At the same time, students stressed...

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