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(2022)The purpose of this study is to describe, analyze, and map the ways through which teaching can positively affect research at the university and thus establish the foundation for the reinterpretation of the Humboldt’s Ideal in today’s university. The aim of the study was to create, for the first time, a structured and multi-perspective model of these ways. In previous research, the direction of the impact from teaching to research has received little attention, and no clear convention or structured model has been constructed to describe the phenomenon. The research question of this study, in what ways teaching positively affects research, arose in the co-creation workshop held as a pilot-study, where we asked where research should be directed to meet the needs of the scientific community. An answer to the research question was sought by interviewing 17 highly experienced scholars from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry and the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki. The data produced by the semi-structured interviews was analyzed by combining inductive and abductive content analysis. The main outcome of the study is a presentation that places 25 different ways in which teaching enhances research into five themes: 1) research process, 2) scholars’ well-being at work, 3) scholars’ scientific expertise, 4) scientific community, and 5) relationship between research and society. In addition, the results thoroughly describe the diverse properties of the individual links. The findings challenge the general perception of the one-way link from research to teaching and create common standards for classifying and describing the positive impacts teaching has on research in academic discourse. The results can be applied in the planning and development of both teaching and research, can have an impact on the incentive schemes in higher education, the well-being and expertise of academic staff, student inclusion and learning, disciplinary cultures, and the connection between research and society.
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(2020)This study focuses on Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture’s action plan for a better utilization of the matriculation examination in university selection procedures in the perspective of educational equity. Therefore I am analyzing a Ministry of Education and Culture’s report called Valmiina valintoihin - Ylioppilastutkinnon parempi hyödyntäminen korkeakoulujen opiskelijavalinnoissa (2016:37), which includes the action plan for better utilization of the matriculation examination in the university selection procedures. Before the report went public, it was sent to multiple educational fields experts to comment. In this study I am interested in the comments the experts made about the action plan and the way the action plan for the university selection has proceeded. I am also focusing on the questions of educational equity this action plan raises. This reform has sparked widespread discussions and raised concerns about the growing inequality. The research methods used in this study were thematic analysis and content analysis. I am analyzing the action plan made for better utilization of the matriculation examination in the university selection procedures, and the feedback from the report given by the experts from the educational field. I am also researching the current state of the action plan for higher education. I used content analysis to determine the opinions experts had about the action plan, and then divided them into on behalf-opinions and against-opinions. After that I utilized thematic analysis to point out the main themes which raised up from the comments. Relevant literature was used to support the analysis. As a result I found out that the experts were really concerned about the possible outcomes the action plan for the university selection could raise. The main themes which came up are the selection, the questions regarding college education and the different forms of capitals the individuals have. The experts were also concerned that educational equity may weaken as consequence of the action plan for better utilization of the matriculation examination in university selection. I also found out that our current government is as well concerned about the consequences the action plan may raise and has shown support to strengthen up Finlands higher education. Despite experts concerns the action plan has been launched, and only the time will tell what kind of consequences it has to equity of education in Finland.
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