Rising to the pedagogical challenges of the Fourth Industrial Age in the university of the future: an integrated model of scholarship

Abstract

A challenge for higher education, in the context of the 'Fourth Industrial Age', is to prepare students for uncertain futures. Proposed is a model of integrated scholarship drawing on, and developing, Boyer's scholarship (discovery, teaching, integration and application). We argue that such a model provides a connecting thread between the idea of a university as conceptualised in the 19th century, making links between the university of the past, present and future. Through reference of a case study example of the links between teaching and research presented in the 2017 UK Teaching Excellence Framework, we draw upon Boyer's scholarship as a conceptual lens to examine institutional texts which articulate teaching excellence. Our findings indicate that current judgements about effective linkages between teaching and research vary greatly with few examples or evidence. Our integrated scholarship model joins together institutional learning communities to discover, communicate and apply new knowledge across disciplines.

Bundled or unbundled? A multi‐text corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of the relationship between teaching and research in UK universities

“…We see these documents as a product of wider education policy, specific policy instruments (REF and TEF regulatory exercises), institutional changes and managerial moves towards efficiencies derived from commercial environments (unbundling) along with particular views of university actors writing and influencing the documents. In this way, the texts have an enacted ontology as policy objects (Sin, 2014) that influence the future development of the university (Matthews et al, 2021). Horrod (2020) and Mathieson (2019) point out that policy mechanisms may be embraced, resisted or creatively negotiated and some of the most interesting discourse is found in the 'creative negotiation'.…”

Innovative and project activities of future education

“…The project method allows students to form the skills of independent research in a given industry will help them in the future to implement more complex projects in their professional activities. So, the project method stimulates active independent creative activity in the search for original, creative solutions for solving the production task and situations proposed by the teacher (MATTHEWS, MCLINDEN, GREENWAY, 2021).…”

Review of Mark Andrejevic (2020). Automated Media

“…Automated Media (Andrejevic 2020a ) is a timely publication when mainstream media and politics are predicting post-pandemic societal futures in the automated society of the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Era’ (Bonilla-Molina 2020 ; Matthews et al 2021 ). A key message from the book is that operationalising society in objective fashion in a post-subjective and post-political world is a threat to all aspects of life and democratic societies.…”