Ilze Maldupa

Asst. prof. Ilze Maldupa, Riga Stradiņš University, Universidad Austral de Chile

Research integration in teaching

A university professor usually has 3 main duties - teaching, development of curriculum and research. In this lecture we will see how to combine all of them. Knowledge in 21st century is constantly growing and developing. Teaching only accepted facts to our undergraduate and postgraduate students will give them 2 important risks: 1) to be reluctant to any knew knowledge; 2) to accept any new information without analyzing it’s validity. Furthermore, research requires teamwork, but quite often it is not an easy task to create one. Both parties will benefit from introducing research methods in teaching - students will learn methods which will allow them to be up to date through all their professional career, ensuring lifelong learning, but professors will develop their research.