Ambiguitätstoleranz und Resilienz für Hochschullehrende als Anker für eine ungewisse Zukunft

Elke Poterpin; Angela Forstner-Ebhart; Tamara Katschnig; Christian Schroll

doi:10.21240/zfhe/20-3/08

In an increasingly unpredictable and complex world, the development of personal competencies is becoming ever more important. In addition to specialised knowledge, university college educators and students need ambiguity tolerance and resilience in order to operate successfully in dynamic contexts. This article examines the characteristics of the two personality traits of university college educators and the correlations between the two constructs. The findings are intended to provide a basis for developing university college measures to promote a flexible, solution-orientated and resilient attitude.

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Not only society, but also the higher education landscape is undergoing fundamental change. This poses major challenges for the quality of higher education teaching at universities and colleges in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Digitalisation of all areas, educational expansion and mass universities, demands for higher labour market relevance of studies, promotion of future skills, questions about economically sustainable education funding and socio-political challenges of our time call for new skills for contemporary teaching. These developments are contributing to a reflection and readjustment of the goals of academic education and are gradually bringing university teaching more into the focus of politics and society. The increased attention paid to teaching is accompanied by the question of the (further) development of university didactic professionalisation, which is increasingly moving away from traditional forms of knowledge transfer and further towards project-based and more open teaching and learning environments.

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Elke Poterpin
Pädagogische Hochschule Wien
https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0835-9159
Angela Forstner-Ebhart
Hochschule für Agrar- und Umweltpädagogik Wien
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0779-8928
Tamara Katschnig
KPH Wien/Niederösterreich | KPH
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9216-4697
Christian Schroll
Hochschule für Agrar- und Umweltpädagogik Wien
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9212-910X

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Poterpin, E., Forstner-Ebhart, A., Katschnig, T., & Schroll, C. (2025). Personal skills for university lecturers as an anchor for an uncertain future. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (Journal for Higher Education Development), 20(3), 169–188. https://doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/20-3/08

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