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Summary
Summary
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 coursesGrounded 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.
Author Notes
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.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures and Tables | p. vii |
| Contributors | p. viii |
| Foreword | p. xii |
| Preface | p. xiv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvi |
| Part I Horizontal: Matters that Apply across Entire Programs | |
| 1 "Problems May Cut Right across the Borders": Why We Cannot Do Without Interdisciplinarity | p. 3 |
| 2 Ethics of Interdisciplinarity: Theory and Practice | p. 18 |
| 3 Supporting Interdisciplinary Studies Using Learning Technologies | p. 30 |
| 4 Assessment in Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Programs: Shifting Paradigms | p. 44 |
| 5 Understanding "How Students Learn, Both Generally and in the Subject" | p. 58 |
| 6 Cross-Faculty Interdisciplinary Work: How to Work with the "Others" | p. 66 |
| 7 Staff Development for Interdisciplinary Programs | p. 76 |
| 8 Work-Based Learning as Interdisciplinary Study: A Discussion of Pedagogy and Practice | p. 84 |
| 9 Student Feedback on Interdisciplinary Programs | p. 91 |
| Part II Vertical: Matters that Apply to a Field of Study | |
| 10 Interdisciplinary Tourism Education | p. 105 |
| 11 Five Strategic Imperatives for Interdisciplinary Study in Mass Communications/Media Studies in the U.S. and U.K. | p. 124 |
| 12 Interdisciplinary Science: A Case Study in the Management of Innovation | p. 134 |
| 13 Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinarity in Futures Studies | p. 140 |
| 14 Interdisciplinarity in Learning and Teaching in Religious Studies | p. 152 |
| Conclusion: Towards Interdisciplinarity in the Twenty-First Century | p. 160 |
| Index | p. 163 |
