Full Description
"Interdisciplinary Higher Education" offers a contemporary of our understanding and practice of interdisciplinary higher education. Part I (Chapters 1 to 5) considers a range of theoretical perspectives on interdisciplinarity: the nature of disciplines, complexity, leadership, group working, and academic development. Part II (Chapters 6 to 18) provides more than a dozen vignettes of interdisciplinary practice, drawn from Australian, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Contents
List of Contributors.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 Interdisciplinary higher education.
Chapter 2 Complexity and mastery in shaping interdisciplinarity.
Chapter 3 Interdisciplinary leadership and learning.
Chapter 4 Working successfully in university interdisciplinary teams: Learning from embedded intergroup relations theory.
Chapter 5 What kind of interdisciplinary space is academic development?.
Vignette 1 (Inter)disciplinary Dublin descriptors? Implementation of the Bologna Process in a Dutch University.
Vignette 2 Facing the realities of implementing an interdisciplinary approach in institutions of higher learning in Malaysia.
Vignette 3 Interdisciplinary survival: The case of Murdoch University.
Vignette 4 Explicating interdisciplinarity in a postgraduate materials conservation programme.
Vignette 5 The getting of interdisciplinarity: The everyday practice of environmental curriculum design.
Vignette 6 Pluridisciplinary learning and assessment: Reflections on practice.
Vignette 7 Many disciplines - common approach: experiences in the development and delivery of an interprofessional health subject.
Vignette 8 Revisiting higher education's heartland: (Inter)disciplinary ways of knowing and doing for sustainability education.
Vignette 9 Interdisciplinary scholarship for novice students.
Vignette 10 The role of inter-faculty relationships in special project collaborations: A distinctly New Zealand experience.
Vignette 11 Developing students' academic skills: An interdisciplinary approach.
Vignette 12 Structuring interdisciplinary collaboration to develop research students' skills for publishing research internationally: Lessons from implementation.
Vignette 13 Promoting interdisciplinary practices through ePortfolios.
References.
Contributors.
International Perspectives on Higher Education Research.
International Perspectives on Higher Education Research.
Copyright page.
