Interdisciplinary Higher Education: Perspectives and Practicalities

by Martin Davies (Editor), Marcia Devlin (Editor), Malcolm Tight (Editor)

Overview

"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, and academic development. Part II (Chapters 6 to 18) provides more than a dozen vignettes of interdisciplinary practice, drawn from Australian, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857243713
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	11/08/2010
Series:	International Perspectives on Higher Education Research , #5
Pages:	333
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Introduction xiii

Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity

Chapter 1 Interdisciplinary Higher Education Martin Davies Marcia Devlin 3

Chapter 2 Complexity and Mastery in Shaping Interdisciplinarity Philip MacKinnon William D. Rifkin Damian Hine Ross Barnard 29

Chapter 3 Interdisciplinary Leadership and Learning Paul Blackmore Camille Kandiko 55

Chapter 4 Working Successfully in University Interdisciplinary Teams: Learning from Embedded Intergroup Relations Theory Meaghan Botterill Barbara de la Harpe 75

Chapter 5 What Kind of Interdisciplinary Space is Academic Development? Tai Peseta Catherine Manathunga Anna Jones 97

Part II Vignettes of Interdisciplinary Practice

Vignette 1 (Inter)Disciplinary Dublin Descriptors? Implementation of the Bologna Process in a Dutch University Ellen Jansen Martin Goedhart 115

Vignette 2 Facing the Realities of Implementing an Interdisciplinary Approach in Institutions of Higher Learning in Malaysia Sarjit Kaur Gurnam Kaur Sidhu 133

Vignette 3 Interdisciplinary Survival: The Case of Murdoch University Lorraine Marshall 151

Vignette 4 Explicating Interdisciplinarity in a Postgraduate Materials Conservation Programme Marcelle Scott 169

Vignette 5 The Getting of Interdisciplinarity: The Everyday Practice of Environmental Curriculum Design Ruth Beilin Helena Bender 181

Vignette 6 Pluridisciplinary Learning and Assessment: Reflections on Practice Sandra Jones Kim Watty 195

Vignette 7 Many Disciplines - Common Approach: Experiences in the Development and Delivery of an Interprofessional Health Subject Helen Cleak Dianne Williamson Glenys French 209

Vignette 8 Revisiting Higher Education's Heartland: (Inter)Disciplinary Ways of Knowing and Doing for Sustainability Education Kathryn Hegarty Barbara de la Harpe 225

Vignette 9 Interdisciplinary Scholarship for Novice Students Charlotte Brack Lisa Schmidt Philip MacKinnon 239

Vignette 10 The Role of Inter-Faculty Relationships in Special Project Collaborations: A Distinctly New Zealand Experience Cath Fraser Lin Ayo 255

Vignette 11 Developing Students' Academic Skills: An Interdisciplinary Approach Kate Chanock 269

Vignette 12 Structuring Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Develop Research Students' Skills for Publishing Research Internationally: Lessons from Implementation Margaret Cargill Patrick O'Connor 279

Vignette 13 Promoting Interdisciplinary Practices Through ePortfolios Juliana Chau 293

References 311

Contributors 339