1st Edition
Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Theory and Practice
As universities increasingly offer courses that break the confines of a single subject area, more students are enrolling on interdisciplinary programmes within multidisciplinary departments. Teaching and learning within interdisciplinary study requires new approaches, including an understanding of the critical perspectives and frameworks and the rearranging of intellectual and professional boundaries.
Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching in Higher Education explores the issues and tensions provoked by interdisciplinary learning, offering helpful information for:
- Staff development
- Distance learning
- Mass communication courses
- Interdisciplinary science courses
Grounded in thorough research, this collection is the first of its kind to provide practical advice and guidance from around the world, improving the quality of teaching and learning in interdisciplinary programmes.
Forward, Sally Brown, Leeds Metropolitan University
Introduction, Balasubramanyam Chandramohan and Stephen Fallows
Part I: Horizontal
1. "Problems may cut right across the borders": why we cannot do without interdisciplinarity, Dick Ellis, University of Birmingham, England
2. Ethics of Interdisciplinarity: theory and practice, Susan Illingworth, University of Leeds, England
3. Supporting interdisciplinary studies using learning technologies, Allison Littlejohn, Glasgow Caledonian University & Dr David Nicol, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
4. Assessment in Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Programmes: Shifting Paradigms, Lorraine Stefani, University of Auckland, New Zealand
5. Understanding ‘how students learn, both generally and in the subject’, Shân Wareing, University of the Arts, London
6. Cross-faculty Interdisciplinary Work - or How to Work with the ‘Others’, Susana Lorenzo-Zamorano, University of Manchester, England
7. Staff development for Interdisciplinary Programmes, Gwen van der Velden, University of Bath, England
8. Work based learning as interdisciplinary study: a discussion of pedagogy and practice, Kate Irving, University of Chester, England
9. Student feedback on interdisciplinary programmes, Lee Harvey, Higher Education Academy, York, England
Section B: Vertical
10. Interdisciplinary Tourism Education, Tazim Jamal and Dawn Jourdan, Texas A&M University, USA
11. Five Strategic Imperatives for Interdisciplinary Study in Mass Communications/Media Studies in the U.S.and U.K., Robert J. Petrausch, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, USA
12. Interdisciplinary Science: A Case Study in the Management of Innovation, Derek Raine, University of Leicester
13. Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinarity in Future Studies, A. Sundaram, Madurai Kamaraj University, India
14. Interdisciplinarity in Learning and Teaching in Religious Studies, Melanie J. Wright & Justin Meggitt, University of Cambridge
Conclusion: Towards Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century, Balasubramanyam Chandramohan and Stephen Fallows
Biography
Balasubramanyam Chandramohan is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Development at Kingston University, UK.
Stephen Fallows is Research Coordinator for the Centre for Exercise and Nutrition Science in the University of Chester, UK.