El llamado de UNESCO de 2015 a conceptualizar la Educación Superior (ES) como un bien común abre las puertas a una nueva perspectiva para la comprensión y búsqueda de solución a un conjunto de problemas derivados de su creciente privatización. Este llamado, para no quedar en el discurso y producir un impacto real transformador, requiere reflexionar sobre las implicancias teóricas y prácticas de esta nueva forma de conceptualizar la ES. Se necesita construir un marco teórico y herramientas prácticas que permitan migrar de las formas actuales de gobernanza de la ES, diseñadas para gestionar un bien público, hacia las formas específicas de la gobernanza de los bienes comunes. En este documento se argumenta que el llamado de UNESCO tiene un sustento teórico sólido, para lo cual se realiza una revisión bibliográfica sobre la teoría de los bienes comunes y se demuestra que la...

The 2015 UNESCO’s call for the conceptualization of Higher Education (HE) as a common good opens doors to a new perspective for the understanding and search of a solution to a set of problems stemming from its increasing privatization. For this call not to remain as a mere speech and be able to produce a real transforming impact, it needs to reflect on the theoretical and practical implications of this new way of conceptualizing HE. A new theoretical framework and practical tools need to be built so as to migrate from the current forms of HE governance, designed to manage a public good, towards the specific forms of governance of common goods. This document discusses UNESCO’s call as having a solid theoretical foundation, for which a bibliographical review on the theory of the common goods is performed, demonstrating that Higher Education can be, indeed, considered as such. This work...

The 2015 UNESCO’s call for the conceptualization of Higher Education (HE) as a common good opens doors to a new perspective for the understanding and search of a solution to a set of problems stemming from its increasing privatization. For this call not to remain as a mere speech and be able to produce a real transforming impact, it needs to reflect on the theoretical and practical implications of this new way of conceptualizing HE. A new theoretical framework and practical tools need to be built so as to migrate from the current forms of HE governance, designed to manage a public good, towards the specific forms of governance of common goods. This document discusses UNESCO’s call as having a solid theoretical foundation, for which a bibliographical review on the theory of the common goods is performed, demonstrating that Higher Education can be, indeed, considered as such. This work...