Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023): HIGHER EDUCATION: A SCENARIO FOR THREE DUTIES - TEACHING, RESEARCH AND EXTENSION

HIGHER EDUCATION: A SCENARIO FOR THREE DUTIES -  TEACHING, RESEARCH AND EXTENSION

This special edition falls within the scope of higher education teaching. One aims at discussing university practices  based on the teaching-research-extension tripod, as well as possibilities and conditions for higher education lecturers’ professional development as they perform their duties of teaching, researching and performing university extension activities. University teaching requires, beyond pedagogical skills, multiple or transversal knowledge coming from research and/or built via continuing education, personal and professional experiences, which bring an effect on teaching and learning. It demands and involves a number of skills and knowledge as well as didactic approaches in a systemic perspective. Faced with those challenges, one observes the need to problematize the complexity and diversity of knowledge and educational contexts regarding university teaching and higher education. Thus, studies and investigations on  practices, pedagogical and curriculum approaches on university teaching, research and extension, as well the ones focused on continuing education and/or professional development for university lecturers and professors. Some questions have been raised on this matter:  Who are the professionals working on higher education? What are their roles? What should one expect from them in terms of knowledge, practices, and professional experience? Who is responsible for their pedagogical education? The issues above comprise the aims for this special edition.

Organizers: Prof. Jesus Maria Sousa (Universidade da Madeira, Portugal), Prof. Osmar Hélio Alves Araújo  (UFPB), and Prof. Dr. Emerson Augusto de Medeiros  (UFERSA)

Cover Art:

Artist: Maíra Velho*

Title: Micélios, 2023

Technique: Digital Collage

About the artwork: I risk imagining higher education as a forest, where educating means creating from new knowledge and conditions. May teaching be mycelia - which, when networked, produce relationships, exchanges capable of making us question and transform our conception of society, ways of life, epistemologies, science and technology.  May it contribute, above all, to overcoming contradictions; through collective actions, may teaching connect and nourish not only the web of scientific knowledge, but life.

*Visual  artist| Masters in Visual Poetics