Studio-Based Higher Education for T-shaped Knowledge Workers: A Summary of a Doctoral Thesis

Abstract

Work life complexities - e.g. solving complex and wicked problems - require cooperation skills and ability to learn in collaboration across the disciplines, meaning skills in crossing boundaries. This article is a summary and reflection to a Doctoral Thesis, which presents a research how a Finnish studio-based pedagogical approach to bachelor education, the LAB Studio Model (LSM), contributes to the education of boundary crossing competence. The research results suggests that LSM offers a potential educational model for learning the skills of boundary crossing, further on encouraging the establishment of new studio-based learning configurations for knowledge workers higher education.

Keywords

• boundary crossing
• higher education
• interdisciplinary
• lab studio model
• studio-based education