The Teaching and Societal Services Nexus: Academics' Experiences in Three Disciplines

Autor/inn/en	Holmén, Magnus; Ljungberg, Daniel
Titel	The Teaching and Societal Services Nexus: Academics' Experiences in Three Disciplines
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 20 (2015) 2, S.208-220 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
DOI	10.1080/13562517.2014.978751
Schlagwörter	Teaching Experience; Investigations; Teacher Attitudes; Social Cognition; Engineering Education; Telephone Surveys; Educational Practices; Higher Education; Interviews; Likert Scales; School Community Relationship; School Business Relationship; Illustrations; Supervision; Theses; Modeling (Psychology); Social Psychology; Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Untersuchung; Lehrerverhalten; Soziale Kognition; Ingenieurausbildung; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Bildungspraxis; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Likert-Skala; Bildliche Darstellung; These; Modeling; Modelling; Modellierung; Sozialpsychologie; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Schweden
Abstract	In this paper, we investigate the perception of academics regarding how their experiences from societal interaction (third mission) inform their teaching and vice versa. We report on a phone survey of Swedish academics in three engineering-related disciplines. The findings show that there is a perceived positive and bidirectional relationship between societal interaction and teaching. Industry-related activities were perceived to inform teaching more than other types of societal interaction. While societal interaction is at large more important for the academics in their search for relevant teaching topics and content, teaching was deemed more important for the implementation of societal interaction. We conclude by proposing that academics creatively (re)combine experiences from third mission and education, often mediated by their research activities. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10