Overview
- Examines how twenty universities around the world engaged with school systems during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Shows how to mitigate the learning crisis in schools by integrating outreach
- Describes innovations that supported school education during the pandemic, such as deploying digital assets
- This is an Open Access book
Part of the book series: Knowledge Studies in Higher Education (KSHE, volume 8)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Open Access
- Higher Education Leadership
- educational innovation
- Leading learning during crises
- pandemic of 2020
- university teaching during COVID-19
- educational continuity
- online platforms for students and teachers
- Professional development
- Instructional resources
- socio-emotional support to students
- Organizational learning and innovation
- Engaging university students during COVID-19
- educational impact of the pandemic
- school system during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
- Elementary and Secondary Learning during COVID-19 in China
- basic and secondary education in Colombia during the pandemic
- distance learning for K12 education in Japan
- upper-secondary education during the pandemic
- University - K12 collaboration during the pandemic in Turkey
About this book
Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, universities found ways to engage with schools to support them in sustaining educational opportunity. In doing so, they generated considerable innovation, which reinforced the integration of the research and outreach functions of the university.
The evidence suggests that universities are indeed open systems, in interaction with their environment, able to discover changes that can influence them and to change in response to those changes. They are also able, in the success of their efforts to mitigate the educational impact of the pandemic, to create better futures, as the result of the innovations they can generate. This challenges the view of universities as “ivory towers” being isolated from the surrounding environment and detached from local problems.
As they reached out to schools, universities not only generated clear and valuable innovations to sustain educational opportunity and to improve it, this process also contributed to transform internal university processes in ways that enhanced their own ability to deliver on the third mission of outreach.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Francisco C. Marmolejo is Higher Education President at Qatar Foundation (QF), where he leads QF’s support and coordination activities to the unique ecosystem of eight prestigious universities offering in Education City in Doha, Qatar, more than 70 undergraduate and graduate programs to students from 60 countries. Previously (2012-20), he worked at the World Bank, where he served as the Global Higher Education Coordinator, based in Washington, DC., and more recently as Lead Higher Education Specialist for India and South Asia, based in New Delhi. From 1995 to 2012, he served as founding Executive Director of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration, a network of more than 160 universities mainly from Canada, USA and Mexico, based at the University of Arizona, where he also worked as Assistant Vice President, Affiliated Researcher at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Latin American Studies. Previously, he has been American Council on Education Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Academic Vice President of the University of the Americas in Mexico, and International Consultant at OECD in Paris. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from his Alma Mater, the University of San Luis Potosi, and the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic
Book Subtitle: Sustaining Educational Opportunity and Reinventing Education
Editors: Fernando M. Reimers, Francisco J. Marmolejo
Series Title: Knowledge Studies in Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82159-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82158-6Published: 05 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82161-6Published: 05 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82159-3Published: 04 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2566-7106
Series E-ISSN: 2566-8315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 357
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general, International and Comparative Education