Understanding interdisciplinary challenges and opportunities in higher education / Karri A. Holley.
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- ISBN: 9780470553374
- ISBN: 0470553375
- Physical Description: xii, 131 p. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass ; c2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Defining interdisciplinarity -- The disciplines, interdisciplinarity, and the university -- Interdisciplinarity, learning, and cognition -- Interdisciplinarity and the practice of research -- Faculty and institutional structure: the conflict of interdisciplinarity -- Best practices related to interdisciplinary education -- Implications for practice and the future of interdisciplinarity -- Conceptualizing the disciplines -- Conceptualizing interdisciplinary knowledge -- The historical influence of the disciplines on teaching and learning -- Interdisciplinary initiatives in twentieth-century American higher education -- The disciplinary basis of college student learning -- Defining interdisciplinary curricula in higher education -- Challenges to the practice of interdisciplinary research -- Facilitating interdisciplinary research in higher education -- Interdisciplinarity, faculty, and change in higher education -- Achieving institutional goals and interdisciplinary faculty engagement -- Fostering faculty connections across institutional boundaries -- Modifying activity systems to encourage interdisciplinarity -- Dedicated organizational and physical space -- Student-centered pedagogy -- Focus on problem or theme based learning -- Curriculum shaped through a variety of interdisciplinary learning experiences -- Culminating capstone project or student portfolio -- Focus on collaborative learning rather than mastery of a particular content -- Use of independent study, internships, and experiential learning -- Goal of preparing students for a complex, modern, interdisciplinary future. |
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Subject: | Interdisciplinary approach in education. Education, Higher > United States. |
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Broadway Library | LB 2361.5 H655 2009 (Text) | 33109009248543 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |