The Possibility of Criticism of the Bologna Education System in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Perspective of Sustainable Development

Bavimo se socijalnim i ekološkim posljedicama ekonomske komodifikacije, komercijalizacije i fragmentacije Bolonjskog obrazovanja u Bosni i Hercegovini. Razvijamo tezu da je o globalnoj, regionalnoj i lokalnoj važnosti očuvanja Bosne i Hercegovine i njenih imanentnih raznolikosti potrebno govoriti na temelju kvalitativne analize, a ne isključivo uz pomoć ekonometrijske analize koja je ugrađena i u Bolonjski sustav definiranja samih pojmova kvalitete i održivosti. Centralni autoreferencijalni problem je što se Bolonjski sustav već u jeziku podčinjava vladajućem diskursu ekonomije znanja te opisuje isključivo ekonomskim kategorijama (efikasnost, efektivnost, stakeholderi, zadovoljstvo itd., pri čemu se ignorira činjenicu da oko 50% nezaposlenih čine upravo mladi ljudi, od kojih veliki broj ima završenu srednju školu i fakultete). Stoga se zalažemo za drugačija mjerila održivoga razvoja u Bosni i Hercegovini koja bi priznavala specifičnu povijest i (buduće) okruženje ove države.The paper deals with the social and environmental consequences of economic commodity, commercialization, and fragmentation of the Bologna education system in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The main thesis of the paper states that in order to speak about the global, regional, and local importance of maintaining Bosnia and Herzegovina and its immanent diversity, we are to speak on the basis of qualitative analysis, and not only with the help of econometric analysis which is integrated in the Bologna system of defining the very concept of education, university, quality, and sustainability. The central auto-referential problem is that the Bologna system – in the language itself – is subordinated to the dominant discourse of ‘knowledge economy’ and described in terms of economy (e.g. efficiency, effectiveness, stakeholders, satisfaction, etc. The fact which is completely ignored is that about 50% of unemployed persons are young people, of whom the majority has completed high school and college). Therefore, we advocate for a different criteria of sustainable development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which would recognize the specific history and the present and future sustainable environment of this state