Resumen

ALTBACH, Philip G.. Libertad académica: Realidades y cambios en el ámbito internacional. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2000, vol.22, n.88, pp.6-20. ISSN 0185-2698.

This article offers an analysis of the state of academic freedom throughout the twentieth century in different geographical and political areas: Western and Eastern Europe, North and Latin America, South and Central Asia, the Far East. Starting from the idea that academic freedom is an essential issue for higher education and that without it the basic task of education and research cannot be achieved, the author studies the changes that the new technologies and the restructuring of the traditional universities caused to academic freedom, warning of the forces that could outrage it by harassing the teaching community.

Palabras llave : Academic freedom; University; Knowledge; Control; Classroom; Professor; Regimes.