A different vision of the societal role of universities, free universities. This is what nineteen scientists, lecturers and students driven by love and their moral sense of duty, wish to promote in the publication "Sense of Serving: Reconsidering the Role of Universities Now". This publication is a preview. More information can be found on www.senseofserving.com.
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Sense of Serving: Reconsidering the Role of Universities in Contemporary Society
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Sense of Serving
Reconsidering the Role of Universities
in Contemporary Society
Meindert Flikkema PhD – m.j.flikkema@vu.nl
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Book release on April 25th 2016
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More information on
www.senseofserving.com
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The book’s composition was fuelled by a growing
discontent about the way in which universities function.
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And inspired by a moral sense of duty and an
aversion to megalomania.
RESEARCH OUTPUT
5%
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… plus added doubts about intensive ‘factory
teaching’ …
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… in combination with complaints about the
quality of new students …
“The skills levels of
our new entrants
continue to go
down!”
“Quality levels have
really hit a low
point!”
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… while teacher training and education
programmes are sidelined.
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Alienation: the University has lost sight of its
roots.
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Academic Education deserves a much better
definition …
Academic
education
is education
provided by
academics.
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… but is not getting a better definition,
because education is a distraction.
“You are a great
teacher, but…”
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Result: next to mountains of butter and rivers of
milk, we are faced with a tsunami of publications.
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Underlying cause: socially disruptive ideas
that ‘only numbers tell the tale’.
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Managers are calling for the right balance
between Education and Research …
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… assuming that Education and Reserach use the
same resources. This assumption is incorrect.
Education Research
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“What are your
dreams for the
future?”
We need to prioritize the development of our students:
what matters is true contact rather than contact hours.
…
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We need to view our students as junior
researchers and junior practitioners.
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We need to reconcile
Education and Research.
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MASTER:
FOCUS ON
EXPLORATION
In co-creation processes.
BACHELOR:
FOCUS ON
REPLICATION
POST-MASTER:
FOCUS ON
EXPLOITATION
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At liberated universities.
• Liberated from church, state and egos
• Liberated from ‘publish or perish’ ideas
• Liberated from unchecked reductionism
• Liberated from ‘the sacrifice of ideals to the illusory
idea of control’
“Freedom,
freedom,
freedom”
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Looking further, looking back
and looking inside.
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Where students get back the control of their
learning process.
attainment
levels
control
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Where a sense of serving for the benefit of
society is inherent.
Sense of
Serving
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And where modern Bildung supports and
enriches the process of truth seeking.
dignity
ignorance
thoughtfulness
dignity
ignorance
thoughtfulness
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Sense of Serving directs and acts.
DIRECTS
“all stakeholders aim to
achieve the same goal”
ACTS
“ensure connectedness
and change”
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Science: in transition at last?
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Sense of Serving creates the basis for an
ecosystem that makes society stronger.
UNIVERSITY
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Sense of Serving is the strongest possible form of
‘governance for society’.
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Sense of Serving creates the necessary
conditions for Life Long Learning.
