Episode 104: Nowhere is My Home: “Universitization” of education

Matt’s Notes

Welcome, welcome! After a few weeks away, we are back with a chat about a topic near, if not dear, to my heart; namely, the university and how it has engulfed, transmogrified, and otherwise co-opted most post-secondary teaching and learning as we’ve come to experience them in the early decades of the twenty-first century! We’re stoked you’ve joined us!

As it turns out, home is where the bandwidth is! #ednontech

While you were busy relaxing, this audio was working overtime! #ednontech

Matt-notes

Doug’s Notes

“Universitization” of education

Universitization can be said to occur when institutions that dispense knowledge in a professional sector, the knowledge itself and the teachers who dispense it are so to speak absorbed by the university … The training staff themselves are confronted with a new dominant status, that of research teacher, which requires them to have a PhD to qualify.

European Ministers of Education, (1999). The Bologna Declaration of 19 June 1999.

… although universitization has assured teachers a training based on scientific knowledge and has stimulated research in the field of teaching, the practical knowledge of teaching has been devalued, limiting the approximation of teachers in daily school education, which Is considered essential for the professional training of teachers.

dos Reis, D. A. (2017). A universitarização dos cursos de formação inicial de professores da educação básica…/The universitization of initial training courses of basic education teachers… Cadernos CIMEAC, 7(2), 82-102.

The concept of university was used in the 13th and 14th centuries for an autonomous community consisting of teachers and students who came together to provide high-level teaching of certain disciplines.

During this universitization process, which bears traces of the history of a country, pauses and accelerations were experienced

Fantastic history of universities— Doug

Toprak, M. A. (2022). Universitization periods in Turkey: Regional policies and cities. In Theory and research in social, human and administrative sciences

Anniversaries are occasions for reflection, and this is also the purpose of this paper.

With its universitisation, teacher education has found itself in a dilemma between two equally important functions: the traditional function of educating future teachers and the new academic, especially research, function.

Zgaga, P. (2023). Milestones in teacher education: Looking back, looking forward. Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development, 55.

Before the move to universitization in France, midwifery training was conducted in hospital schools. Since then, midwifery training bodies have gradually been integrated into universities.

Mahieu, C. (2024). The commitment of French midwifery teachers to doctoral studies: A qualitative study based on experience feedback. European Journal of Midwifery, 8, 10-18332.