The troubadours of knowledge and development for contextualised university studies PAULA GORSZCZYēSKA JAROSŁAW JENDZA The article presented below is the authors’ subjective choice of free reflections on the conference ‘Caring for the quality in quantity – academic education in the process of changes’ (GdaĔsk Shakespeare Theatre, GdaĔsk, Poland, 28-29th April, 2016). In other words, our intention is to share some of the thoughts inspired by our participation in the event which was the culmination of the tutoring implementation project conducted at the University of GdaĔsk from 2014 to 2016 and funded by FSS, EEA Grants, Norway Grants and FRSE 1 . The title notion of the troubadour of knowledge as characterised by Serres (2000) may be referred to any (academic) teacher who […] with his whole body, all his passion, his anger, and his strained liberty, whoever wants to create resists the power of knowledge, both the works that have already been made and the institutions that feed on them. (Serres, 2000: 98). Thus, any university staff member whose attitude matches this description is likely to possess three major qualities. First of all, it is a person that incorporates both passion or love and their professional knowledge in everyday educational situations within university. Passion and love seem to be treated as non-scientific concepts and, therefore, are not very popular in academic discourse. However, both the conference and some scholarly contributions show that they ought to be treated very seriously (Dey, Steyaert 2007: 437-461). Second of all, such a person is constructively critical both towards their own practices and towards the social and institutional 1 Details of the project can be found here: http://www.projektiq.ug.edu.pl (Accessed 11.05.2016).