Regulatory Framework of the Research-Based Approach to Education in the EU

Joamets Kristi () and Vasquez Maria Claudia Solarte ()
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Joamets Kristi: Department of Law, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 3 Tallinn 12618, Estonia
Vasquez Maria Claudia Solarte: Department of Law, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 3 Tallinn 12618, Estonia

TalTech Journal of European Studies, 2020, vol. 10, issue 3, 109-136

Abstract: Higher education institutions around the world have embarked on complex journeys of organizational change to facilitate the transition towards a more competent and educated society, especially one able to adapt to advanced and sustainable political, economic and sociotechnical paradigms. in this context, leading universities have adopted the Research-Based (rB) approach as a fundamental component of their strategies to bring closer together their main educational activities: teaching, learning and research. However, in spite of ample efforts, serious shortcomings at the implementation level are commonly reported. Especially revealing are the students’ limited self-reliance, confidence, and academic research and writing skills documented in the literature. This article examines and updates the concept of Research-Based maps and explores the multilevel regulatory framework that has conditioned the implementation and alignment of educational initiatives, including the institutional arrangements that are common in public universities in the European union, and in Estonia, as an example. it enhances the understanding of complex institutional and regulatory interactions in general, emphasizing the importance of reflexive and well justified normative determination.

Keywords: digital age education; educational policy; EU regulatory strategy; functional institutional analysis; research-based education; research universities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1515/bjes-2020-0024

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