Tintenfische. "Bologna" und die Professoren
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15203/ozp.58.vol41iss3Keywords:
Lehre, BolognareformAbstract
Tintenfische und Professoren haben eines gemeinsam - beide wissen, wie man Tinte einsetzt, um Wolken zu produzieren, die verhindern, dass andere etwas sehen, was sie nicht sehen sollen. Gerade deutsche Professoren haben sich dieser Technik ausgiebig bedient, als ihnen abverlangt wurde, die sog. Bologna-Reform umzusetzen - eine Reform, die den Lehrbetrieb, so wie sie ihn kannten, tiefgreifend verändern sollte. Wie sich schnell gezeigt hat, liegt der Haken an Bologna darin: Nimmt man das Vorhaben ernst, dann entwertet es wesentliche - intellektuelle wie habituelle, individuelle wie institutionelle - Investitionen, die dem professoralen Lebensstils sein Gepräge geben. So wurde aus dem gesetzlichen Auftrag eine unvertretbare Zumutung und unerträgliche Einmischung. Bald jeder fühlte sich schikaniert, dachte an innere Emigration, wenn nicht gar offene Verweigerung und erfand für diese Renitenz ein nobleres Anliegen als den eigenen Komfort. Die Reformer verfügten über genügend Macht, um sicherzustellen, dass das Gesetz dem Buchstaben nach befolgt wurde; seinen Kritikern ist es derweil gelungen, ihm den Geist auszutreiben.
ENGLISH:
Octopuses - Bologna and the Professors
Professors and octopuses have one thing in common: they both know how to use ink in order to produce clouds that hide the truth from those not supposed to see it. German professors in particular made ample use of this technique when they were required by law to plement the so-called Bologna-reform, a wide-ranging overhaul of most elements of teaching “as they knew it”. As quickly became evident, the hitch with Bologna is this: if taken seriously, it cannot but devalue essential investments, intellectual was well as habitual, individual as well as institutional, that have “framed” the professorial way of life. Hence this new policy was considered an unreasonable demand and an intolerable intrusion. Almost everyone felt victimized, pondered inner emigration or even open resistance, and invented nobler causes to stand up for than his own comfort. The reformers were in a position to enforce compliance with the letter, if not the spirit, of the law. In return, their opponents did what was in their power - while adhering to the letter, they killed the spirit.
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