1 / 20

Formation of Five Universities: A Critical Analysis of the Portraits, Plans and Re-presentations

Formation of Five Universities: A Critical Analysis of the Portraits, Plans and Re-presentations. Tone Dyrdal Solbrekke , Thomas de Lange, Ciaran Sugrue , Tomas Englund , and Molly Sutphen ECER, 2013 Istanbul, Turkey. Formation.

marja
Download Presentation

Formation of Five Universities: A Critical Analysis of the Portraits, Plans and Re-presentations

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Formation of Five Universities: A Critical Analysis of the Portraits, Plans and Re-presentations Tone DyrdalSolbrekke, Thomas de Lange, Ciaran Sugrue, Tomas Englund, and Molly Sutphen ECER, 2013 Istanbul, Turkey

  2. Formation • Addresses the process individuals go through as they are ‘shaped’ as whole persons • Cognitive knowledge, practical experiences as well as normative justifications of attitudes and values

  3. Institutional Formation • Addresses the context in which values, aspirations, and responsibilities are held and negotiated • Individuals shape and are shaped by an institution

  4. Research Questions • What are the mission, values, and strategies institutions articulate? • What tensions are revealed? • How do we discern the logics and rationales of institutional priorities?

  5. Methods • Analysis of strategic documents to discern the priorities and strategies institutions choose • Read between the lines • Except for Helsinki, lived experience of the mission statements and strategic plans • Iterative co-analysis • For analysis, used the lens of academic responsibility and accountability

  6. Four European Universities • Helsinki University • University College Dublin • University of Oslo • Uppsala University

  7. Why These Universities? • Status -- Universities with high status in their regions and all in the top 200 according THE • All are public, research-intensive universities

  8. Plus One American • Universityof North Carolina, Chapel Hill • Curious about how similar the oldest public university in the U.S. is to the other four • European higher education has been restructured along lines similar to U.S. • Still a European story

  9. Academic Responsibility and Accountability

  10. All Mission Statements • Remain or move up in university rankings • Traditions • Benefit society • Being part of a global society • Cross-disciplinary

  11. Tensions

  12. A Continuum Chapel Hill UCD Uppsala University of Oslo Helsinki Traditional Responsibility Entrepreneurial Accountability

  13. A Continuum Traditional Responsibility Entrepreneurial Accountability

  14. Where On Our Continuum? The . . . is helping to build a better world, by involving itself more actively in the resolution of global problems. Our multidisciplinary teaching and research generate new knowledge and expertise for the benefit of society at large. Innovative thinking and creative interaction will boot us in our endeavour to rank among the 50 leading universities of the world.

  15. A Continuum Traditional Responsibility Entrepreneurial Accountability

  16. Where On Our Continuum? The . . . [will] undertake research and education of the highest quality [to] discover and disseminate new information while also maintaining its heritage as a seat of learning, a rich cultural environment and a bearer of tradition [and] protect freedom of research and the inseparability of research and education.

  17. A Continuum Traditional Responsibility Entrepreneurial Accountability

  18. Where Now? • How can we better capture the direction of institutions’ formation? • In what direction will these aspirations and goals lead an institution? • How does institutional formation affect student and faculty formation?

  19. More Questions on Formation • In the last decade, how have higher education policies affected how research universities define their mission? • Who do research universities serve and for what purpose? • Is the university an institutional ideal? • How do universities value research? • Financial, status? • Critical voice? • Closer alliance to the world of work?

More Related