Higher Education Research: Challenges and Practices
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Higher Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2024) | Viewed by 28523
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Higher education has long been considered one of the cornerstones of scientific development through teaching and learning (the so-called first mission), but also in the research dimension (second mission) and as the main driving force in social and economic progress (third mission).
However, the purpose and the expectations of higher education stakeholders—not only institutions but also academics, researchers and students from different study cycles, policymakers and companies—are shifting. We are witnessing the reshaping of teaching higher education institutions (HEIs) into research HEIs, with the increase in research hubs, the development of scientific knowledge that can be put into practice for the improvement and progress of society, and the establishment of partnerships with the business community, namely via spin-offs generated in the HEIs.
It is in this context of reformulating the mission of higher education of researching to (re)create scientific knowledge that this Special Issue—Higher Education Research: Challenges and practices—was designed, with the purpose of presenting different kinds of contributions on ways to problematize this scenario, which varies according to the countries and organizations in question. Additionally, we aim to collate studies that analyze the research practices in several HEIs to understand and, thus, develop the potential of Higher Education Research, the means of its future development, the innovations that have emerged from it and their contribution to the evolution of society as a whole.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Maria José Sá
Dr. Sandro Serpa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- research in higher education
- higher education and the creation of scientific knowledge
- ethics in research
- research and career promotion
- types of research
- communication of research
- potential and innovation of higher education research
- the second mission of HEIs
- theories and methods in higher education research
- interdisciplinary research areas for higher education
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