ERIC Number: EJ1183580
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jun
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The Rigour-Relevance Gap in Professional Programmes: Bridging the 'Unbridgeable' between Higher Education and Practice
Finch, David; Falkenberg, Loren; McLaren, Patricia Genoe; Rondeau, Kent V.; O'Reilly, Norm
Industry and Higher Education, v32 n3 p152-168 Jun 2018
The tension between the rigour and the relevance of higher education research remains an important and hotly contested topic among scholars, administrators, practitioners and policymakers. This debate is most evident in professional programmes in which scholars are challenged to pursue new knowledge independent of its immediate relevance to practice while simultaneously contributing actionable knowledge to their profession. This two-part study explores whether the resulting pressure has an impact on the scholarly output and recruitment practices of different professional programmes. The results show that the context of the profession has a significant influence on the level of integration between academia and industry.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Relevance (Education), Scholarship, Difficulty Level, Educational Quality, Theory Practice Relationship, College Faculty, Accounting, Social Work, Legal Education (Professions), Money Management, Nontenured Faculty, Tenure, Professional Education, Comparative Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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