Interdisciplinary learning and teaching in higher education : theory and practice / edited by Balasubramanyam Chandramohan and Stephen Fallows

Published:: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Physical Description:: xvi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Chandramohan, Balasubramanyam, 1955- and Fallows, Stephen J.

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Contents:

Horizontal : matters that apply across entire programs -- "Problems may cut right across the borders" : why we cannot do without interdisciplinarity / R.J. Ellis -- Ethics of interdisciplinarity : theory and practice / Susan Illingworth -- Supporting interdisciplinary studies using learning technologies / Allison Littlejohn and David Nicol -- Assessment in interdisciplinary and interprofessional programs : shifting paradigms / Lorraine Stefani -- Understanding "how students learn, both generally and in the subject" / Shân Wareing -- Cross-faculty interdisciplinary work : how to work with the "others" / Susana Lorenzo-Zamorano -- Staff development for interdisciplinary programs / Gwen van der Velden -- Work-based learning as interdisciplinary study : a discussion of pedagogy and practice / Kate Irving -- Student feedback on interdisciplinary programs / Lee Harvey -- Vertical : matters that apply to a field of study -- Interdisciplinary tourism education / Tazim Jamal and Dawn Jourdan -- Five strategic imperatives for interdisciplinary study in mass communications/media studies in the U.S.and U.K. / Robert J. Petrausch -- Interdisciplinary science : a case study in the management of innovation / Derek Raine -- Theory and practice of interdisciplinarity in futures studies / A. Sundaram -- Interdisciplinarity in learning and teaching in religious studies / Melanie J. Wright and Justin Meggitt -- Conclusion: Towards interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century / Balasubramanyam Chandramohan and Stephen Fallows.

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ISBN:

9780415341318 (hb : alk. paper)
0415341310 (hb : alk. paper)
9780415341301 (pb : alk. paper)
0415341302 (pb : alk. paper)
9780203928707 (e-book)
0203928709 (e-book)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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