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The Short and Intense Post-Nationalist Period in Finnish Higher Education
2020
This chapter presents the transition from a nationalist to post-nationalist period since the 1980s as the increasing systematic mobility and European cooperation as well as the fall of the Soviet Union turned Finnish higher education towards Western cooperation. The new internationalization strategies first aimed at founding mobility programmes for higher education and then particularly English medium study programmes. Post-national nation state emerges in the analysis mainly as an actor on the global economy. The discourses of competition and success in the global markets are interwoven with discourses of protection of the nation state. The use of English as an ostensibly self-evident and …
Las materias de Patrimonio y Museología en el grado de Historia del Arte en universidades españolas
2020
Este artículo analiza la incorporación en el ámbito universitario de los contenidos de Patrimonio y Museología vinculados a la Historia del Arte. A pesar de que son inherentes al nacimiento de la disciplina, su presencia explícita en los planes de estudio es bastante reciente. Con especial protagonismo se incorporaron con la creación de la licenciatura de la Historia del Arte y, después, del grado. En este caso, a partir de su diseño bajo las exigencias del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES). Con dicho marco, se compara la actual representación de las asignaturas de Patrimonio y Museología en el grado de Historia del Arte en las universidades españolas, así como su imbricación con…
Valoración de la competencia digital en alumnos con rendimiento alto en Perú
2020
El desarrollo de la competencia digital constituye un reto crítico e impostergable para la sociedad actual y una emergente área de trabajo e investigación educativa. Con la finalidad de dar soporte empírico al diseño de políticas educativas, este trabajo busca conocer cuáles son las expectativas que tiene un grupo de alumnos de educación superior con rendimiento alto y limitadas condiciones económicas, los becarios del programa 'Beca 18' del gobierno peruano, sobre los factores que caracterizan la competencia digital, así como conocer las diferencias socioeducativas asociadas a esta percepción. Para ello, se empleó el Cuestionario de Competencias Digitales en Educación Superior (CDES) a una…
Teaching the Sensitive Stuff: Does Industry Matter? Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
2015
In this chapter, Teaching the sensitive stuff: Does industry matter? Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability, Harald Knudsen and Alessandro Frigerio discuss the relation between business behaviour and morality. It is a provocative chapter that makes important links with CSR debates. The message on the core themes of Higher Education and Sustainability lies in making students aware of how misuse of power and influence can develop within businesses. The chapter argues against a theoretical approach that assumes that the market functions equally well in all situations. Rather, experience shows that industry matters.
The Post-entrepreneurial University: The Case for Resilience in Higher Education
2021
AbstractHistorically speaking, the university has been a highly resilient organizational form; however recent pressures to become entrepreneurial threaten the institutional foundations on which that reliance is based. The chapter first provides conceptual clarity by revisiting what we argue are two distinct schools of thought on the entrepreneurial university. We show how the economic school’s conception intertwines with the rise of New Public Management (NPM) in Europe in the late 1990s and early 2000s, reframing the concept in ways that made it incompatible with resilience thinking. However, we argue that by tying back into ‘lost’ elements of sociological school’s conception, and associat…
2020
The Internet has become one of the main sources of information for university students’ learning. Since anyone can disseminate content online, however, the Internet is full of irrelevant, biased, or even false information. Thus, students’ ability to use online information in a critical-reflective manner is of crucial importance. In our study, we used a framework for the assessment of students’ critical online reasoning (COR) to measure university students’ ability to critically use information from online sources and to reason on contentious issues based on online information. In addition to analyzing students’ COR by evaluating their open-ended short answers, we also investigated the stude…
¿Por qué las instituciones de educación superior deben apostar por la marca?
2018
A través de la presente investigación se pretende analizar el papel del capital de marca en el sector educativo. Para tal fin, se analizan las principales aportaciones de la literatura al estudio del capital de marca y su aplicación en el sector educativo, identificando qué variables determinan el mismo en la educación superior. Una vez establecido el modelo de capital de marca susceptible de aplicación en el sector educativo, se lleva a cabo un estudio empírico contando con una muestra cuantitativa de 2.239 respuestas válidas procedentes de distintos agentes universitarios implicados. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la repercusión del capital de marca en lo relativo a las variables que l…
The Role of Curriculum Theory in Contemporary Higher Education Research and Practice
2017
In the light of recent debates on the possible issues in curriculum studies, formulated particularly in the field of sociology of education, this chapter discusses the role and the importance of curriculum theories in higher education. Focusing on the historical and the conceptual roots of curriculum theory approaches, the argument is that the dispute and the separation between normative and critical roles of curriculum theories are important to overcome in today’s competency-based and outcome-focused context of higher education. Basil Bernstein’s ideas on the vital role of knowledge are discussed in relation to the origins of the so-called crisis in curriculum theories. It is suggested tha…
ICT – the new frontier? Pushing the boundaries of careers practice
2014
Much progress has been made in integrating information and communications technology ICT into careers practice, but there is still room for improvement. An international lens is adopted to examine some key elements that contribute to the successful integration of information communications technology (ICT) into careers practice. We start by exploring the role of policy, using the UK as a case study. Next, the perceptions that Finnish career practitioners have of ICT are reviewed using research findings into the different ways they think about social media and its purpose in career services. Finally, lessons learned from the design and integration of online services within career development…
Identifying Problematic Study Progression and “At-Risk” Students in Higher Education in Finland
2018
Finland offers a specific example of a country with a broad enrolment in higher education, where the educational starting age is relatively high and where studies may last considerably longer than in most other European countries. This study attempted to identify at-risk students in Finnish universities with the greatest probability of non-completion of studies. This probability is by far the highest in the fields of information technology and information sciences and, in specific cases, in the fields of mathematics and science and economics and management. The situation of at-risk students is best described in terms of the scant use of time for present studies, uncertainty regarding their …