| Description |
xxi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
International perspectives on higher education research, 1479-3628 ; v. 5 |
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International perspectives on higher education research ; v. 5
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| Contents |
Interdisciplinary higher education / Martin Davies, Marcia Devlin -- Complexity and mastery in shaping interdisciplinarity / Philip MacKinnon [and others] -- Interdisciplinary leadership and learning / Paul Blackmore, Camille Kandiko -- Working successfully in university interdisciplinary teams : learning from embedded intergroup relations theory / Meaghan Botterill, Barbara de la Harpe -- What kind of interdisciplinary space is academic development? / Tai Peseta, Catherine Manathunga, Anna Jones -- (Inter)disciplinary Dublin descriptors? : Implementation of the Bologna process in a Dutch university / Ellen Jansen, Martin Goedhart -- Facing the realities of implementing an interdisciplinary approach in institutions of higher learning in Malaysia / Sarjit Kaur, Gurnam Kaur Sidhu -- Interdisciplinary survival : the case of Murdoch University / Lorraine Marshall -- Explicating interdisciplinarity in a postgraduate materials conservation programme / Marcelle Scott -- The getting of interdisciplinarity : the everday practice of environmental curriculum design / Ruth Beilin, Helena Bender -- Pluridisciplinary learning and assessment : reflections on practice / Sandra Jones, Kim Watty -- Many disciplines -- common approach : experiences in the development and delivery of an interprofessional health subject / Helen Cleak, Dianne Williamson, Glenys French -- Revisiting higher education's heartland : (inter)disciplinary ways of knowing and doing for sustainability education / Kathryn Hegarty, Barbara de la Harpe -- Interdisciplinary scholarship for novice students / Charlotte Brack, Lisa Schmidt, Philip MacKinnon -- The role of inter-faculty relationships in special project collaborations : a distinctly New Zealand experience / Cath Fraser, Lin Ayo -- Developing students' academic skills : an interdisciplinary approach / Kate Chanock -- Structuring interdisciplinary collaboration to develop research students' skills for publishing research internationally : lessons from implementation / Margaret Cargill, Patrick O'Connor -- Promoting interdisciplinary practices through eportfolios / Juliana Chau |
| Summary |
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, academic development. Part II (Chapters 6 to 18) provides more than a dozen vignettes of interdisciplinary practice, drawn from Australia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) |
| Subject |
Education, Higher.
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Interdisciplinary approach in education.
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| Author |
Davies, W. Martin.
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Devlin, Marcia.
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Tight, Malcolm.
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| ISBN |
0857243713 (hbk.) |
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0857243721 (ebook) |
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9780857243713 (hbk.) |
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9780857243720 (ebook) |
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