Methodology for studying university educational communities as the basis for the interaction within the academic space at universities

About the author:

Dmitry Yu. Narkhov, Cand. Sci. (Soc.), Associate Professor, Department of Organization of Work with Youth, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia; d_narkhov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0104-7324

Abstract:

The relevance of studying university educational communities of higher education is determined by several factors. They include the ambiguity of reforming Russian and university academia, as well as the presence of many inconsistencies, inequalities, and contradictions within this field. This explains the need to bring research activities to a qualitatively new level. A hypothesis is put forward about the insufficient readiness of university research and its main actors —research and teaching workers (RTW), students and administrative and managerial workers (AMW) — to implement the functions of ensuring the key tasks of sustainable development of society. As a tool for overcoming the contradictions between them and a new way of organizing the interaction of university educational communities, the organization of the university scientific space in the form of a scientific ecosystem is proposed. This article aims to determine the methodological approaches to studying university educational communities and the interaction between them in the university academic space. The methods under study are the community, resource, and typological approaches. Their definitions are given, characteristics of the initial theories are presented, principles and rules for studying the communities of the RTW, students and AMW and their interaction within the framework of the named approaches are proposed. The results show their possible use as a foundation for a methodological program for studying educational communities and their interaction at universities as a special resource for developing research in higher education of the region and federal district (macroregion).

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