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Phillip Motley; Beth Archer-Kuhn; Catharine Dishke Hondzel; Jennifer Dobbs-Oates; Michelle Eady; Janel Seeley; Rosemary Tyrrell – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
Immersive learning practices (ILPs) in higher education are multidisciplinary in nature and varied in levels of integration into the student learning process. They appear in a variety of higher education programs such as teacher education, social work, law, and health sciences, and in practices such as service-learning, study away, internships,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes
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Caldis, Susan; Kleeman, Grant – Geographical Education, 2019
One of the questions being asked in schools is the extent to which Geography can be considered a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subject. While such a question might be driven by those strategic opportunists seeking to elevate the status of the subject within the school's curriculum, or as a means of leveraging an increase…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, STEM Education, Educational Objectives, Definitions
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Klein, Julie Thompson – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021
Prompted by William Newell's 2013 call for the Association of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) to consider whether to rethink its mission in light of other organizations' interests, this article begins by reflecting on similarities and differences among five of the founding organizations of a recently formed Global Alliance for Inter- and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Curriculum
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Ryan, Juliana – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
A number of Australian universities have established and sponsored interdisciplinary communities of practice (CoPs) to develop teaching and learning. CoPs are popularly defined as groups of people who share a passion for something and, together, learn how to do it better. Without further specification, this definition is of limited use in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Discourse Analysis
Siekmann, Gitta; Korbel, Patrick – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2016
Current definitions of STEM skills are inconsistent and not specific enough to inform education and skill policies and initiatives, potentially leading to a number of unsubstantiated and uncoordinated responses. There is a danger of generating a domestic oversupply of graduates in science, mathematics, engineering and technology while ignoring the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Long, Janette; Moran, Wendy; Harris, Joanne – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article explores the history and development of interdisciplinarity within the Australian context. Conditions and circumstances for the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches are explored with discussion identifying how these approaches impact and shape national curriculum, teachers' practice and pedagogy. Policies, proposals, and debate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Development, Educational History