Collaborative Research and Urban Educational Discourse in Contemporary Higher Education

AbstractThe paper analyzes the urban educational discourse in contemporary higher education in the context of collaborative research. The complexity of modern urbanism as a discipline and as a profession indicates the importance of linking various disciplinary paradigms and forms of knowledge. Studying urbanism involves collaborative research dimension and focus on trans-disciplinary studies. Generally, the practice of studying urban discourse in contemporary higher education does not show a high level of understanding for collaborative research dimension, which points to the need for transformation of current practices of educational process. Collaborative research has a dominant place in the contemporary urban discourse