Abstract

ALARCAO, Isabel; TAVARES, José; MEALHA, Óscar  and  SOUZA, Dayse Neri de. The university for the next twenty years: A view based on a scenario methodology. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2018, vol.31, n.1, pp.108-122. ISSN 0871-9187.  https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.12622.

In this paper the authors propose to report the process and analyse the results of a scenario-based methodological approach to perceive prospective views for the future of the University in what concerns to education, innovation and research and according to the value intensity given to a set of markers: minds, affects, autonomy, technologies, methods, organization, buildings, funding, contexts, equipments, behaviours, employability, democraticity and internationalization, under study in the Project “Markers of education, innovation and research for the University of today and of the next decade”. The focus of the present text is not the content under discussion, i.e. the prospective view of the evolution of the university in the future; it focuses on the methodology of construction of prospective scenarios in sessions with professors, researchers and students. The methodology of the sessions combined the dynamics of workshop and focus groups. The discussion of results focuses on difficulties, potentialities and limitations of the approach, as well as contributions for the global study.

Keywords : University; Scenarios; Focus groups; Markers.

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