scholarly journals Exploring the synergistic relationship between research and teaching

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Fredericks

Even though the relationship between teaching and research has been examined extensively over the past decade, and a number of published articles and seminar based workshops exist (Hattie and Marsh, 1996) ; there continues to be a disconnect in the application and integration of these two concepts in the academic setting. This difficulty may be due to the perception that teaching and research are two separate entities that need to be fitted together (Boyer 1990). An alternative approach to understanding these two concepts is to envision them as one entity consisting of two components that feed off of each other. That is, as academics, our goal is to engage in a single entity identified as scholarly activities. These activities should present themselves as an amalgamation of teaching and research. To have a scholarly presence, an academic must not only be competent in both areas, but must consistently demonstrate the relationship between their teaching and research throughout their tenure. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of strategies academics can consider as they continue to refine and develop their program of scholarship. A summary of the relationship between teaching and research will be provided, followed by a presentation of various methods that can enhance the teaching and research relationship both within and outside of the classroom environment.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Fredericks

Even though the relationship between teaching and research has been examined extensively over the past decade, and a number of published articles and seminar based workshops exist (Hattie and Marsh, 1996) ; there continues to be a disconnect in the application and integration of these two concepts in the academic setting. This difficulty may be due to the perception that teaching and research are two separate entities that need to be fitted together (Boyer 1990). An alternative approach to understanding these two concepts is to envision them as one entity consisting of two components that feed off of each other. That is, as academics, our goal is to engage in a single entity identified as scholarly activities. These activities should present themselves as an amalgamation of teaching and research. To have a scholarly presence, an academic must not only be competent in both areas, but must consistently demonstrate the relationship between their teaching and research throughout their tenure. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of strategies academics can consider as they continue to refine and develop their program of scholarship. A summary of the relationship between teaching and research will be provided, followed by a presentation of various methods that can enhance the teaching and research relationship both within and outside of the classroom environment.


2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Isabel Da Cunha

Los crecientes desafíos a la educación superior están exigiendo de las instituciones esfuerzos para rever e innovar los currículos, expresar comunicaciones atractivas para sus públicos potenciales y articular las formas de gestión con el discurso de la mejora de la calidad. En la perspectiva epistemológica, es preciso abordar la temática conceptual que vincula enseñanza e investigación, ampliando la reflexión sobre la naturalización con que ese discurso viene sustentando la calidad de la educación superior.  Desde el campo de los conocimientos pedagógicos se exige una base de investigación y reflexión, focalizando en el currículo, los procesos de enseñar y aprender y su dimensión de calidad. Esa perspectiva incide fuertemente en la concepción de docencia y en los saberes necesarios para su ejercicio. También debe ser objeto de preocupación política que podrá ser la más compleja, pues envuelve la revisión de culturas, visiones e intereses corporativos que se fueron consolidando Através de la  tradición. Recurrir a la investigación-acción como herramienta para la producción de conocimientos acerca de las prácticas de enseñar y aprender en la universidad puede ser una significativa estrategia que altere la ecuación usual de investigar <em>sobre</em> los profesores para hacerlo <em>con </em>los profesores. Y esa condición se constituye en un desafío para concretar los esfuerzos de democratización de la educación superior, “calificando la calidad”<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a>de la práctica pedagógica mediante la relación enseñanza e investigación.<div><br /><hr size="1" /><div><p><a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> N del T: en el original en portugués la expresión “qualificando a qualidade” conlleva un juego de palabras que tal vez se pierda en español.</p><p> </p><p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p><strong>Research and teaching: scenarios and epistemological impasses for qualifying higher education.</strong></p><p>The growing challenges for higher education are requiring institutions efforts to revise and innovate curriculum, to express attractives to their potential audiences and articulate ways of managing the discourse of quality improvement. In epistemological perspective, it’s needed to invest in the conceptual theme that combines teaching and research, expanding the reflection about naturalization that this discourse is sustaining the quality of higher education. From the field of pedagogical knowledge is required a base of research and reflection, focusing on curriculum, teaching and learning processes and their quality dimension. This perspective focuses heavily on the design of teaching and knowledge necessary to its exercise. Should also be a concern that the political dimension may be more complex because it involves the review of cultures, visions and corporate interests that were consolidated by tradition. Make use of action research as a tool for the production of knowledge about the practices of teaching and learning at university can be a significant strategy to change the usual equation of research on teachers to do it with teachers. And this condition constitutes a challenge to achieve the democratization efforts of higher education, “qualifying the quality” of pedagogic practice for the relationship teaching and research.</p></div></div>


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (55) ◽  
pp. 293-313
Author(s):  
Pablo Álvarez Domínguez

Abstract In the past two decades, the museology of education in Spain has been one of the most attractive, productive avenues of educational historical research. With new focuses, education museums have come to be understood as essential resources for research and teaching in this area. A study of the relationship between the Museology of Education and History of Education offers a field of research which feeds into the study of Spain’s historical educational heritage. This article approaches the Museology of Education as the most promising research area for historiographers of education in Spain. From the very start, it sets out the main actions, activities and projects in museology taking place in the country, which demonstrate how historical educational science has taken ethnohistory in a new direction.


1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 883-884
Author(s):  
Lesley Onuora

Astronomy research and teaching has been actively carried out in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka for the past 20 years and before that, in the Department of Mathematics. Economic problems, lack of recent journals, text books and computing facilities, and very poor communications have made it increasingly difficult for these programmes to continue. Added to these problems there is often unrest in the Universities resulting in frequent closures and almost constant uncertainty about payment of the already poor salaries. It is a wonder that anyone could be even thinking of astronomy.


2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Milan Kubiatko

The relationship between teaching and research is often assumed and just as often ignored. Research should and does influence the teaching (and vice versa), but the gap between the two can at times seem large. Many of us are talking about very narrow connection between research and teaching. These voices are too often heard from colleges. But many academicians have got naive ideas about the work of a teacher; their ideas are often too far from the reality. The academicians often hold the concepts about an ideal class, where all the pupils are engaged in the teaching content; they do not consider the discipline sustaining. So, we can ask questions, if science education research is important for teachers and why it is realized?


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Harrison ◽  
Louise Nuttall

Cognitive stylistics is primarily concerned with the cognitive processes – mental simulations – experienced by readers. Most cognitive stylisticians agree that experiences of reading texts are dynamic and flexible. Changes in the context of reading, our attentional focus on a given day, our extra background knowledge about the text, and so on, are all factors that contribute to our experience of a fictional world. A second reading of a text is a different experience to a first reading. As researchers begin to systematically distinguish between the ‘solitary’ and ‘social’ readings that constitute reading as a phenomenon ( Peplow et al., 2016 ), the relationship between multiple readings and the nature of their processing becomes increasingly pertinent. In order to explore this relationship, firstly we examine the different ways in which re-reading has previously been discussed in stylistics, grounding our claims in an empirical analysis of articles published in key stylistics journals over the past two decades. Next, we draw on reader response data from an online questionnaire in order to assess the role of re-reading and the motivations that underpin it. Finally, we describe an exercise for the teaching of cognitive stylistics, specifically applying schema theory in literary linguistic analysis (Cook, 1994), which illustrates the need to distinguish between readings as part of an analysis. Through these three sections we argue that our experiences of texts should be considered diachronically, and propose that the different readings that make up an analysis of a text should be given greater attention in stylistic research and teaching.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 303-311
Author(s):  
Nikos Macheridis ◽  
Alexander Paulsson ◽  
Håkan Pihl

This study examines how university teachers in two Swedish higher education institutions grapple with the challenge of connecting research and teaching. With the increasing pressure in higher education to improve graduate employability, teaching is expected to include skills-oriented, vocational training which may (or may not) conflict with the more traditional Humboldtian ideal, in which teaching is built on research. Drawing on the rich bodies of literatures on employability and the teaching–research relationship, the authors find that university teachers practice the relationship in four ways: by using scientific articles in the curriculum; by teaching students a critical research attitude; by lecturing about their own research results; and by relying on the formal skills of fellow teachers. These practices of establishing a close connection between teaching and research are, this study suggests, met with resistance from colleagues, who are perceived to favor vocational training and emphasize employability; from students, who are also perceived to worry about employability; and finally from other policies that target partially conflicting objectives, including those for employability.


GeroPsych ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-251
Author(s):  
Gozde Cetinkol ◽  
Gulbahar Bastug ◽  
E. Tugba Ozel Kizil

Abstract. Depression in older adults can be explained by Erikson’s theory on the conflict of ego integrity versus hopelessness. The study investigated the relationship between past acceptance, hopelessness, death anxiety, and depressive symptoms in 100 older (≥50 years) adults. The total Beck Hopelessness (BHS), Geriatric Depression (GDS), and Accepting the Past (ACPAST) subscale scores of the depressed group were higher, while the total Death Anxiety (DAS) and Reminiscing the Past (REM) subscale scores of both groups were similar. A regression analysis revealed that the BHS, DAS, and ACPAST predicted the GDS. Past acceptance seems to be important for ego integrity in older adults.


1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Fernández ◽  
Miguel A. Mateo ◽  
José Muñiz

The conditions are investigated in which Spanish university teachers carry out their teaching and research functions. 655 teachers from the University of Oviedo took part in this study by completing the Academic Setting Evaluation Questionnaire (ASEQ). Of the three dimensions assessed in the ASEQ, Satisfaction received the lowest ratings, Social Climate was rated higher, and Relations with students was rated the highest. These results are similar to those found in two studies carried out in the academic years 1986/87 and 1989/90. Their relevance for higher education is twofold because these data can be used as a complement of those obtained by means of students' opinions, and the crossing of both types of data can facilitate decision making in order to improve the quality of the work (teaching and research) of the university institutions.


2019 ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Riccardo Resciniti ◽  
Federica De Vanna

The rise of e-commerce has brought considerable changes to the relationship between firms and consumers, especially within international business. Hence, understanding the use of such means for entering foreign markets has become critical for companies. However, the research on this issue is new and so it is important to evaluate what has been studied in the past. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of e-commerce and internationalisation studies to explicate how firms use e-commerce to enter new markets and to export. The studies are classified by theories and methods used in the literature. Moreover, we draw upon the internationalisation decision process (antecedents-modalities-consequences) to propose an integrative framework for understanding the role of e-commerce in internationalisation


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