The Bologna Process

Impact on Interdisciplinarity and Possibilities for Women's Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID12116174
AuthorsIsabel Carrera Suárez (0000-0001-7121-6528, Universidad de Oviedo, corresponding author), Laura Viñuela Suárez (Universidad de Oviedo)
Year2006
Volume14
Issue2
Pages103-114
Publication date2006-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0803-8740 • E-ISSN: 1502-394X
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08038740601022759
OpenAlexW2034195503
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This article discusses the impact of the so‐called Bologna process on possibilities for interdisciplinary higher education and research, in particular in relation to Women's Studies. Based on findings from two European research projects, it argues that the spaces open to interdisciplinarity and Women's Studies in higher education under the Bologna process are strongly marked by national systems and their interpretations of the Bologna requirements. The opportunities in the educational field (whether at undergraduate or post‐graduate level) to innovate and flexibilize, key requisites for Women's Studies as a discipline, are impaired by institutional structures of administration, research, evaluation, accreditation and career development that rely on disciplinarity as their core categories. The Nordic countries seem to have moved more clearly than others, such as Hungary or Spain, towards an implementation of the Bologna agreement in a manner that facilitates both interdisciplinarity and Women's Studies

Accreditation · Bologna Process · Engineering ethics · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Process (computing · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law · Political Science Research and Education