Rethinking pedagogy in higher education amid turbulent times

Katalin Korpics, Márta (author), Bajnok, Andrea (author)

Global challenges (labour market expectations, digital technology, the massing of higher education) are constantly changing the way higher education is managed. Responses to change can be planned. Responses from higher education stakeholders can be interesting and instructive for other institutions, as these examples can be incorporated into their own responses. The purpose of the study is to present the top-down pedagogical reform process that started in 2019 at the University of Public Service in Budapest. Although initiated by the university’s educational strategy, its implementation depends on the teachers who have actively created innovative pedagogical spaces that ensure sustainability. These innovative spaces include training sessions for teachers, workshops, thematic discussions on teaching methodology, methodological publications, research and the annual Innovative Department Award. The stages of the process and the results and challenges of each stage were documented using a case study method. The description helps to illustrate how a process of pedagogical reform, with which the university leadership’s goal is rapid, systemic change affecting the work of hundreds of teachers, can be developed and sustained on the basis of commitment from teachers and institutional determination.

• Language: English
• Keywords: higher education, pedagogical changes, institutional development
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 193–211
• Numbering: Vol. 16, no. 2 (varia issue)
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-189453
• UDC: 378
• ISSN on article: 2232-2647
• DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.1859
• COBISS.SI-ID: 222664451
• Publication date in RUL: 07.10.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: CEPS Journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal = revija Centra za študij edukacijskih strategij
• Publisher: Pedagoška fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-2647
• COBISS.SI-ID: 254029824

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Ponovni razmislek o pedagogiki v visokem šolstvu v turbulentnih časih

Abstract

Globalni izzivi (pričakovanja trga dela, digitalna tehnologija, množičnost visokega šolstva) nenehno spreminjajo način upravljanja visokega šolstva. Odzivi na spremembe so lahko načrtovani. Odzivi visokošolskih deležnikov so lahko zanimivi in poučni za druge institucije, saj lahko te primere vključijo v svoje odzive. Namen študije je predstaviti proces pedagoške reforme od zgoraj navzdol, ki se je začel leta 2019 na Nacionalni univerzi za javne službe v Budimpešti. Čeprav se je proces reforme začel na podlagi izobraževalne strategije univerze, je njegovo izvajanje odvisno od učiteljev, ki so aktivno ustvarjali inovativne pedagoške prostore, ki zagotavljajo trajnost. Ti inovativni prostori vključujejo: usposabljanja za učitelje, delavnice, tematske razprave o metodologiji poučevanja, metodološke publikacije, raziskave in letno nagrado za inovativni oddelek. Faze procesa ter rezultati in izzivi vsake faze so bili dokumentirani z metodo študije primera. Opis pomaga ponazoriti, kako je mogoče proces pedagoške reforme, pri kateri je cilj vodstva univerze hitra sistemska sprememba, ki vpliva na delo več sto učiteljev, razviti in vzdrževati na podlagi predanosti visokošolskih učiteljev in institucionalne odločnosti.

• Keywords: visoko šolstvo, pedagoške spremembe, institucionalni razvoj, višje in visokošolsko izobraževanje