Education as an event: event nature of the university corporativity

Abstract

In the article the conceptual issues of the educational philosophy are presented. The aim of the research is to explore the specific character of contemporary education ontology in the whole and the particularities of the university education as a part of it. In addition authors make an attempt to consider the education being as its betweenness in the world, to identify its historical and philosophical transformations closely connected with traditionally obtained corporative university form. Originally, the university was founded as a corporation, but state-of-the-art conditions of its functioning forced the development of its cultural model and structure. Authors stand on the position that the classical ontological university particularities - the wholeness of a being and the absoluteness of criteria - at the moment are displaced by the ontological eventness. Event ontology supposed to obtain ordinary disunification, plurality and conditions singularity. The university educational ontology transformation leads to the corporate culture ontology changing processes. A contemporary university corporate culture has event nature and it is supposed to illuminate itself in the postclassical cultural university identity. The main methods of the investigation are the philosophical and cultural critics (critical analysis) and the comparative research of the classical university education (presented in the unity of its being) and its current condition status represented by the event existence. The novelty of the authors' position is in argumentation of ontological term “event” applied to the contemporary university and relative to it, also event ontology based, corporativity. Eventness of the current cultural processes, including educational ones, is an element, deconstructing being in its entity and wholeness. Being in existent modernity obtains the features of eclecticism, fragmentarity, as a consequence, the key characteristics development of the social institutes is required. The classical university in its students' and professors' unity of scientific investigations has to expand its functions in accordance with the educational market demand. Essentially, a university transforms into a business corporation with the high standard of culture. The authors' position is based on the deconstructive processes within the present day philosophical thinking, distinguishing the classical scope clarity. The position mentioned above give a possibility to consider the modification of ontology of being in entity of its particularities, the education being and the university being alongside its corporate culture. The position explored can be identified as event ontology and it is the result of liquid modernity requirements challenging a contemporary university. The classical university model and the unipolar culture are displaced by the multiple identity and the complementarity of corporate and academic cultures as a vital condition of the university existence.