Debating the relationship between academics and practitioners in the higher education field

Fink-Hafner, Danica (author), Dagen, Tamara (author)

In this article we present findings from focus groups (FGs) consisting of academics and practitioners in the higher education (HE) field from different parts of the world, who debated their perceptions of the current state of the art in the HE field. The main findings, which call for further research, as well as activities of academics, practitioners and policymakers at various levels, are as follows: 1) there is a gap between basic academic research and applied research (with the latter often not meeting the appropriate conceptual level), which needs to be closed; 2) this gap is expressed also in the global context of the HE field; 3) multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, methodological quality of both basic and applied research need to be developed and 4) scholars’, practitioners’ and governments’ (policymakers’) responsibilities need to be addressed

• Language: English
• Keywords: praktiki, akademiki, vladna politika, izobraževalna politika
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication date: 01.01.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 5-24, 166
• Numbering: Letn. 59, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138673
• UDC: (378:001-051):378-051-027.22
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.59.1.5-24
• COBISS.SI-ID: 108357891
• Publication date in RUL: 09.08.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

V članku predstavljamo ugotovitve fokusnih skupin, v katerih so znanstveniki in praktiki s področja visokega šolstva iz različnih delov sveta razpravljali o stanju na visokošolskem polju. Ključne ugotovitve, ki terjajo tako nadaljnje raziskovanje kot tudi dejavnost znanstvenikov, praktikov in političnih odločevalcev na različnih ravneh, so: 1) med znanstvenim raziskovanjem in uporabnim raziskovanjem (slednje pogosto ne dosega primerne konceptualne ravni) je prepad, ki ga je treba odpraviti; 2) ta prepad se izraža tudi v globalnem kontekstu visokošolskega polja; 3) potrebno je razviti multidisciplinarnost, interdisciplinarnost, transdisciplinarnost in metodološko kvaliteto tako bazičnega kot uporabnega raziskovanja; 4) potrebno je nasloviti odgovornost znanstvenikov, praktikov in vlad

• Keywords: practitioners, academics, government policy, education policy

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0136
• Name: Politološke raziskave