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Interdisciplinary higher education [electronic resource] / Martin Davies, Marcia Devlin, Malcolm Tight.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International perspectives on higher education researchPublication details: Bingley : Emerald, 2010.Description: 1 online resource : illISBN:
  • 9780857243720:
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 378
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Contents:
Introduction / Martin Davies, Marcia Devlin and Malcolm Tight -- Interdisciplinary higher education / Martin Davies and Marcia Devlin -- Complexity and mastery in shaping interdisciplinarity / Philip MacKinnon, Will Rifkin, Damian Hine and Ross Barnard -- Interdisciplinary leadership and learning / Paul Blackmore and Camille Kandiko -- Working successfully in university interdisciplinary teams : learning from embedded intergroup relations theory / Meaghan Botterill and Barbara de la Harpe -- What kind of interdisciplinary space is academic development? / Tai Peseta, Catherine Manathunga and Anna Jones -- (Inter)disciplinary Dublin descriptors? : implementation of the Bologna process in a Dutch university / Ellen Jansen and Martin Goedhart -- Facing the realities of implementing an interdisciplinary approach in institutions of higher learning in Malaysia / Sarjit Kaur and 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 everyday practice of environmental curriculum design / Ruth Beilin and Helena Bender -- Pluridisciplinary learning and assessment : reflections on practice / Sandra Jones and Kim Watty -- Many disciplines common approaches : experiences in the development and delivery of an interprofessional health subject / Helen Cleak, Dianne Williamson, and Glenys French -- Revisiting higher education's heartland : (Inter)disciplinary ways of knowing and doing for sustainability education / Kathryn Hegarty and Barbara de la Harpe -- Interdisciplinary scholarship for novice students / Charlotte Brack, Lisa Schmidt and Philip MacKinnon -- The role of inter-faculty relationships in special project collaborations : a distinctly New Zealand experience / Cath Fraser and 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 and Patrick OConnor -- 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.
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Introduction / Martin Davies, Marcia Devlin and Malcolm Tight -- Interdisciplinary higher education / Martin Davies and Marcia Devlin -- Complexity and mastery in shaping interdisciplinarity / Philip MacKinnon, Will Rifkin, Damian Hine and Ross Barnard -- Interdisciplinary leadership and learning / Paul Blackmore and Camille Kandiko -- Working successfully in university interdisciplinary teams : learning from embedded intergroup relations theory / Meaghan Botterill and Barbara de la Harpe -- What kind of interdisciplinary space is academic development? / Tai Peseta, Catherine Manathunga and Anna Jones -- (Inter)disciplinary Dublin descriptors? : implementation of the Bologna process in a Dutch university / Ellen Jansen and Martin Goedhart -- Facing the realities of implementing an interdisciplinary approach in institutions of higher learning in Malaysia / Sarjit Kaur and 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 everyday practice of environmental curriculum design / Ruth Beilin and Helena Bender -- Pluridisciplinary learning and assessment : reflections on practice / Sandra Jones and Kim Watty -- Many disciplines common approaches : experiences in the development and delivery of an interprofessional health subject / Helen Cleak, Dianne Williamson, and Glenys French -- Revisiting higher education's heartland : (Inter)disciplinary ways of knowing and doing for sustainability education / Kathryn Hegarty and Barbara de la Harpe -- Interdisciplinary scholarship for novice students / Charlotte Brack, Lisa Schmidt and Philip MacKinnon -- The role of inter-faculty relationships in special project collaborations : a distinctly New Zealand experience / Cath Fraser and 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 and Patrick OConnor -- Promoting interdisciplinary practices through ePortfolios / Juliana Chau.

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.

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