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David Garcia; Brendan H. O'Connor – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Many educational researchers discuss policy implications of their work and aspire to have an impact on policy. However, shaping policy requires academics to step away from the "comfort zone" of critique in the academy and into the world of politics, where they must act in unfamiliar ways and understand their role and positioning as…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Equal Education, Graduate Study, Policy Formation
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Everth, Thomas – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
The climate emergency mandates a refocusing of society and education on the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world. Emerging from decades of social constructionism that openly promoted climate science denial, social and educational theorising now engages with new materialist philosophies and the agency of matter. Physicist Karen…
Descriptors: Climate, Ecology, Quantum Mechanics, Mechanics (Physics)
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Francovich, Chris – Journal of Leadership Education, 2020
This paper describes a collaborative curriculum project integrating 4 leadership programs at three academic levels. What emerged from this effort was a theoretical model understood as a boundary object that allows our diverse perspectives a space within which we can communicate, collaborate, and learn from each other.
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Educational Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Church Related Colleges
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Sabatke, Bruna; Rossi, Izadora Volpato; Ramirez, Graciela E.; Ramirez, Marcel I. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
In an academic semester, living in social isolation and under restrictions of the pandemic, we organized weekly multidisciplinary seminars from a postgraduate course program in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, integrating students from different regions of Brazil and South America. Outstanding researchers from Brazil, Germany, France, Argentina, Mexico,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Seminars, COVID-19
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Rafi Rashid; Rick Szostak – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023
The literature on interdisciplinary teaching has tended to stress undergraduate teaching. As interdisciplinary graduate teaching becomes increasingly common, we need to reflect on what graduate students need to know. This article discusses key ideas that all interdisciplinary graduate programs should communicate. In particular, we need to teach…
Descriptors: Graduate School Faculty, Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Study, Student Needs
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Campion, Corey – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2018
Contrary to the narrative of collapse that attends much of the discussion of the humanities today, recent data suggest that for many programs in the United States, at least, stagnation is the real challenge. Committed to teaching models that support faculty rather than student needs, graduate programs, in particular, are struggling to extend their…
Descriptors: Humanities, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Small Colleges
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Welch-Devine, Meredith; Shaw, Alana; Coffield, Julie; Heynen, Nik – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
Interdisciplinary inquiry is widely perceived to be essential for tackling the most pressing social and environmental issues we face (Brown, Harris, & Russell, 2010). Scholars from many different traditions have argued that the magnitude and complexity of such problems require the integration of perspectives and expertise from multiple…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Study, Barriers, Educational Innovation
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Richards, Erin – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
This article addresses my professional development as a teacher and political scientist throughout the span of a 15-year career in political science. Also included are reflections on graduate education and the compatibility and necessary dual focus on both political science and teaching in the academy today as it relates to my present-day…
Descriptors: Political Science, Teaching (Occupation), Career Development, Graduate Study
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Hawkins, Barbara; Wilson, Brett – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2017
Practice-led research in art and design has now come of age and can take its place alongside other forms of research at the academic "high table". It no longer needs to be treated with "special consideration" as a new form of intellectual enquiry. The research craft developed by those involved in practice-led research admits…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Research, Art Education, Design
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Lueck, Amy J.; Boehm, Beth – Composition Studies, 2019
In this article, we forward a perspective on interdisciplinarity and diversity that reconsiders the notion of expertise in order to unstick discussions of graduate education reform that have been at an impasse for some forty-five years. As research problems have become increasingly complex so has demand for scholars who specialize narrowly within…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Interdisciplinary Approach, Expertise, Graduate Study
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Jaiswal, Niharika – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2019
The broad question that interests this article is how does one read and compare the negotiations public and private universities are making with the neo-liberal paradigm of knowledge production with reference to their social science curricula. Michael Apple's (1993, "Teachers College Records," 95(2), 222-241; 2001, "Currículo Sem…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Sociology
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Pacheco, Regina Silvia; Franzese, Cibele – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
This paper discusses the challenges of professional education for mid-career public managers at graduate level, pointing out pitfalls to avoid and obstacles to face. Analyzing the Brazilian case, the goal is to raise issues that may also be present in other cases. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle faced by graduate programs on…
Descriptors: Management Development, Public Service Occupations, Professional Education, Graduate Study
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Bursztyn, Marcel; Maury, María Beatriz; Litre, Gabriela – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2016
This article analyzes the process of institutionalizing interdisciplinary graduate programs in Brazil, which has over more than four decades of experience implementing masters and doctoral problem-oriented programs designed to operate outside the disciplinary structure of universities. Brazil has a high degree of centrality and government…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Case Studies, Governance
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Dasgupta, Shoumita; Symes, Karen; Hyman, Linda – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2015
The Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at the Boston University School of Medicine houses numerous dynamic graduate programs. Doctoral students began their studies with laboratory rotations and classroom training in a variety of fundamental disciplines. Importantly, with 15 unique pathways of admission to these doctoral programs, there were…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Graduate Study, Curriculum Development, College Curriculum
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Thurston, Linda P.; Yelich Biniecki, Susan M. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2017
A strengths assessment of the College of Education at Kansas State University in the United States showed that a majority of faculty had strong interests in social justice issues in education. The need for providing continuing post-graduate education in social justice education with theory-to-practice relevancy is critical in formal and informal…
Descriptors: Program Design, Curriculum Design, Graduate Study, Student Certification
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