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the use of radically different teaching and learning strategies such
as enquiry-based learning (Blackmore, 2009).
Conclusion
More fundamentally, perhaps there is a need to acknowledge
that teaching and research are often intrinsically linked in the
individuality of a single academic. Through this article we have
been exploring the ways that teaching might impact research and
vice-versa, but we are also pointing to the fact that most attempts
to show this synergy becomes problematic because we always try
to measure a single and isolated dimension (i.e. teaching only or
research-only). Perhaps the biggest change that we are suggesting
is a shift at the level of individual academic identity whereby a
persons’ capacity to be a good research/teacher (simultaneously),
must be seen as both research and teaching together, and as
more than the simple combinatory sum of added parts. In these
aspirational learning contexts, where bridges are built linking
research and teaching activity, students could learn to discover the
world by doing ‘real’ research, underpinned by collaboration and
scholarship, much earlier than at present time. Moving towards a
more integrated model of higher education, one that values the
scholarship of teaching and learning would provide a solid basis for
giving students new exciting opportunities for enhancing levels of
satisfaction, success and learning. The link between teaching and
research has received a great deal of attention especially in this era
of information technology and the explosion in knowledge which
is uncontrollable. The growth of knowledge especially in the 21st
and early 22nd century showed us the necessity to propose models
which can define and specify the role of each player in the process
of education, in knowledge transfer, in the teaching profession or in
the research field. Each staff working in an organization contributes,
one way or another, to what the organization do and do have
specific tasks. Many models were proposed to analyze and explain
how can we use the knowledge and human capacities to achieve an
educational and professional development at the individual, group
and organizational levels in higher education institutions and more
will come.
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