The "Thinking through University Reform" Forum is a series of interactive exchanges (based on an electronic discussion forum) and face-to-face discussions (during two working meetings) among academics from various countries, backgrounds, and disciplines. The content of this document was put together on the basis of these discussions. It is in precisely this sense that they fully express the collective will of a group.
This document needs to be read as a necessary articulation between, on the one hand, a general view of teaching reform, in the form of general reflections, and on the other, more specific proposals arising out of attempts to anticipate a reform leading to an effective transformation.
University Reform must go beyond the idea of a simple administrative reform so as to be able to meet the great challenges that knowledge will have to cope with during the third millennium, especially the challenges of globalization and diversity.
Out of this arises the double paradox of the University's function: adapting to and integrating scientific modernity, meeting the basic needs of training, providing teachers for new professions; but also and above all, providing teaching that is meta-professional and meta-technical, that is to say, a Culture.
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