ABSTRACT
The dilution of the modern matrix of higher education in the current socio-economic contexts has been reflected on the hegemony of market discourses and on the centrality of the principle of performativity and economic relevance, challenging the specificity of higher education institutions. The integration of digital technologies in education and its governance reinforces the political grammar that has been hegemonizing the field of higher education, being the pandemic crisis a catalyst for the changes underway. The goal is to bring to the research agenda in education the issue of the specificity of the educational experiences at this level of education and to move the debate away from the simplistic dichotomy between the celebration of technologies and digitization of education and the technophobia.
Keywords
Higher education; Modernity; Idea of university; Higher education institutions; Performativity