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Rozana Carducci; Jordan Harper; Adrianna Kezar – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
"Higher Education Leadership" offers a groundbreaking exploration of leadership in higher education. Rozana Carducci, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar challenge traditional paradigms and ideologies that hinder progress--advocating instead for liberatory systemic change. The authors highlight new and evolving interdisciplinary leadership…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership Styles, Interdisciplinary Approach, Systems Approach
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Derek Gladwin; Naoko Ellis – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
A multitude of global challenges that society grapples with, including climate change, social injustices, and economic disparities, persist largely due to the shortcomings of effectively responding to complex systems. In this article, we consider adopting systems literacy as a comprehensive educational approach to navigate in complex systems. We…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Active Learning
Lorenzo Lotti, Editor; Lory Barile, Editor – Springer, 2025
This edited volume presents a series of case studies and research evidence on how global students contribute to widening the debate on sustainability within Higher Education institutions: by offering their own stories, along with academics and external stakeholders they create a unique context where their diverse backgrounds are combined into a…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Higher Education, Sustainability, Student Experience
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Danielle Lake; Wen Guo; Elizabeth Chen; Jacqui McLaughlin – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
This article builds upon current research to understand the value and limitations of teaching and learning design thinking (DT) in higher education. We implemented a mixed-methods study with faculty and students across 23 diverse courses in four higher education institutions in the United States. Findings showed that following structured learning…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Higher Education, Decolonization
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Ruben D. Lopez-Parra; Tamara J. Moore – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
The design of biological systems is a multidisciplinary activity in which biomedical engineers collaborate to build novel biological systems that address society's needs. One of the most relevant skills for designing biological systems is engineering systems thinking (EST). Among the EST elements, the EST cognitive competencies are comparatively…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Thinking Skills, Design
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Barnett, Ronald – Quality in Higher Education, 2023
The contemporary university has its place amid a world in total motion. The issue arises, then, as to what it is it to try to shape a university in the context of a world that lacks stability. The thesis argued here is twofold: (1) that the university should take seriously its entwinement with the world; indeed, with large eco-systems of the…
Descriptors: Universities, Futures (of Society), Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Quality
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Davis, Rhonda – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
This article describes the use of mapping strategies in an interdisciplinary course using "Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory" (Repko & Szostak, 2021). The use of interdisciplinary mapping took place in a 300-level undergraduate course and focused on maps presented in the textbook, including the system map (and systems…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Concept Mapping, Systems Approach
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van den Akker, Robin; Noordegraaf-Eelens, Liesbeth; van Eekelen, Bregje F.; Teeuwen, Roger – European Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Living in a Delta, amidst water, land and air, means living and engaging with complex concerns. To address these concerns the Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab (RASL) has developed an education- and research program for Higher Education in which the (alpha-, beta-, and gamma-) sciences and the arts are combined to engage with with all of the scales,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Marcia Joppert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The world has experienced rapid changes, leading to pressing issues such as environmental degradation, social inequality, and resource depletion. As a transdisciplinary field, evaluation has emerged as a crucial tool in addressing these challenges and promoting systemic change. However, concerns have been raised regarding the field's capacity to…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Systems Approach, Problem Solving
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Joseph Anthony Wilson – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article addresses key issues in WAC/WID regarding translation and biliteracy. Informed by translingual scholarship, genre studies, and history of the English language research, it first defines translation politically and historically, and as always involving negotiations of meaning-making across linguistic repertoires and genres. It then…
Descriptors: Literacy, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Writing Instruction
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Jackson, Alice; Hurst, Glenn A. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Research suggests that systems thinking is beneficial to education and it has been proposed that training students using systems thinking techniques may enhance their abilities to understand and solve some of the global grand challenges that society currently faces as outlined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, before…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Systems Approach, Thinking Skills
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Giedre Kligyte; Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer; Jarnae Leslie; Tyler Key; Bethany Hooper; Eleanor Salazar – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
The benefits of student-staff partnerships are widely reported in the Students-as-Partners literature. It is envisaged that partnership initiatives can have a transformative effect on institutional cultures, however, how this transformation might be achieved is less clear. Building on transdisciplinary and systems change perspectives, we propose a…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Systems Approach, Organizational Culture
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Weber, Jana M.; Lindenmeyer, Constantin P.; Liò, Pietro; Lapkin, Alexei A. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Approaches to solving sustainability problems require a specific problem-solving mode, encompassing the complexity, fuzziness and interdisciplinary nature of the problem. This paper aims to promote a complex systems' view of addressing sustainability problems, in particular through the tool of network science, and provides an outline of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Workshops, Sustainability
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Hajar Choukrani; Thaura Ghneim-Herrera – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
This paper examines the transformative potential of integrating transdisciplinarity and systems thinking into educational practices, anchored in a participatory initiative by the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (MAK'IT). The study centres on engaging master's and doctoral students in co-creating educational proposals,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Advocacy, Learner Controlled Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Ahmet Tanhan; Besra Tas; Zuhal Agilkaya-Sahin; Seth C. W. Hayden; Ozan Korkmaz; Orhan Gürsu – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2025
In this research, we used Community-Based Participatory Research, Ecological Systems Theory and active interdisciplinary social advocacy perspectives as part of our theoretical framework. Our sample consisted of 530 counselling undergraduate students with 481 consenting to participate by sharing the most important main facilitators and barriers…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach, Participatory Research, Online Courses
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