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Designing Interdisciplinary Education : A Practical Handbook for University Teachers /
Now, more than ever, higher education faces the challenge of educating students to see beyond the limits of their own discipline and to come up with innovative integrated solutions to our contemporary problems. Designing Interdisciplinary Education serves as a foothold for interdisciplinary initiati...
| Autores principales: | , , , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Moving towards more complexity; 1.2 Why interdisciplinary education?; 1.3 Why this handbook; 1.4 An overview of the content; 2. An overview of the development stages; 2.1 Starting with an interdisciplinary development team; 2.2 Stages in programme development ; 2.3 Putting the theory into practice; 3. Unravelling interdisciplinary understanding; 3.1 The definition of interdisciplinarity; 3.2 Embedding integration in education; 3.3 Unravelling interdisciplinary understanding ; 4. Developing the raw sketch; 4.1 Drafting the vision.
- 4.2 Expressing thevision4.3 Engaging stakeholders in the visioning process; 4.4 Communicating the vision; 5. Formulating interdisciplinary learning outcomes; 5.1 Intended learning outcomes at the programme level; 5.2 Intended learning outcomes at the course level; 5.3 Creating learning pathways within a programme; 5.4 Translating intended learning outcomes into learning activities; 6. Embedding integration in the programme design; 6.1 Four curriculum models ; 6.2 Deciding on a curriculum format; 6.3 Working towards an interdisciplinary programme ; 7. Hiring and engaging faculty.
- 7.1 Features of an interdisciplinary teacher 7.2 Recruiting, engaging and connecting faculty ; 7.3 Overcome hurdles in the interdisciplinary teaching team; 8. Exploring the teaching philosophy and didactic methods; 8.1 Assumptions of teaching and understanding ; 8.2 Formulating a shared teaching philosophy; 8.3 Didactic methods that nurture interdisciplinary understanding; 9. Assessment of interdisciplinary learning outcomes; 9.1 Valid assessment of interdisciplinary learning outcomes; 9.2 Make interdisciplinary assessment work; 9.3 Developing a programme-wide assessment strategy.
- 10. Interdisciplinary teaching in practice10.1 Important prerequisites for interdisciplinary classes ; 10.2 The teacher as coach ; 10.3 Teaching reflective functioning ; 10.4 Enhancing collaboration skills; 10.5 Teaching critical thinking; 10.6 Teaching an integrative interdisciplinary capstone course ; 11. Programme assessment and adjustment; 11.1 Formal and informal assessment; 11.2 An evaluation approach; 11.3 Accreditation of interdisciplinary programmes; 11.4 Sustaining interdisciplinary programmes ; Appendices; Index case studies; Index activities; Index key advices; References.