| Наименование статьи | Beyond Teaching and Research: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Evolving Roles of Higher Education |
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| Страницы | 252 |
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| Аннотация | Many scholars have observed that the traditional teaching and research functions ascribed to
higher education have now expanded to involve a wider range of objectives and actors in response to
changing internal and external demands. However, the available literature on the topic lacks accounts
reflecting stakeholder perspectives. This paper aims to respond to this limitation by implementing
a content analysis of 12 semi-structured interviews with European and international experts in the
field of higher education. More specifically, it sketches their views on higher education institutions’
roles considering current and emerging imperatives and the tensions and contradictions arising from
the evolution of their conventional functions. The results show that higher education institutions are
perceived to serve a combination of multiple roles: as enablers of skills and attributes, co-creators and
users of knowledge, intermediaries between social actors, instigators of social change, and active agents of their own transformation. This finding aligns with literature in terms of the diverse and relational nature
of modern higher education institutions’ operations. While desirable, their fulfilment generates several
tensions and contradictions: such as responding to global vs. regional trends, adopting flexibility vs.
standardization, pursuing excellence and competitiveness vs. inclusion, competing logics, and managing
institutional inertia. The study can benefit educational managers and researchers by offering new insights
into generating networked action and building ecosystems as higher education reconfigures its roles to
navigate the changing social and economic landscape. |
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| Ключевые слова | third mission, higher education institutions, ecosystem, engagement. |
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| Журнал | Economic and social changes: facts, trends, forecast |
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| Номер выпуска | 6 |
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| Автор(ы) | Каро-Гонсалес А., Анабо А. Ф. |
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