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University Implementing Its Community Service Role Through Curriculum Development in a Regional College

2013; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2383264

1556-5068

Anne Keerberg, Aet Kiisla, Sulev Mäeltsemees,

Educational Innovations and Challenges

The three roles of a higher education institution are teaching, research and community service. The objective of the article is to analyse how a university regional college can implement the task of community service via its curriculum development. The theoretical base lies on the positions of internationally recognised scientists of education policy as well as OECD definitions and clarifications that are compared to the cases of the regional colleges (in Narva and Kuressaare) of two universities (respectively University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology).