Pedagogika Szkoły Wyższej

Today’s position is that the university is in a state of crisis. To see if you can complete this diagnosis, I refer to the student experience in this article. I will reconstruct their perspective on the university and the opportunities it creates for their development. I recognize the elements that lie in different dimensions of the academic world, the relationship between them, which in their subjective assessment can lead to both negative and positive results. The article consists of two parts. In the first part I present the history of the crisis of the European university. By coming to the present time, I point out that the crisis of this institution is associated with departing from the model of a research university, a center of culture and a place of selfless search for the truth. In the second part I refer to the results of my own research. On the basis of the free speech of the students of the pedagogy of one of the Polish universities I am drawn to the image of an institution full of dialectical contradictions and ambiguous results that they generate. At the same time, despite a number of imperfections and shortcomings, I point out that it still has resources that can support development, inspire action, and address the needs of young people.