Understanding interdisciplinary challenges and opportunities in higher education

Holley, Karri A. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780470553374
ISBN: 0470553375
Physical Description: print
xii, 131 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley Periodicals, c2009.

Content descriptions

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.