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Rashid, Rafi – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
To confront the major challenges of the 21st century, doctoral students need to be able to think and work across disciplinary boundaries. I have been inspired by the "Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory" (2017) textbook, by Allen Repko and Rick Szostak, to reform an interdisciplinary doctoral curriculum in Singapore. For…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Graduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Change
Gallagher, Hilary; Liang, Jianqiang; Torrisi-Steele, Geraldine; Ramsay, Sylvia – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Academics at Griffith university envisioned a complementary learning and supportive relationship could be developed between Bachelor of Information Technology (BAIT) students and Master of Social Work (MSW) students. Discussions between discipline specific staff highlighted that each discipline had strengths and expertise that could assist…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Interpersonal Communication
Braga, Alessandro – Teaching Public Administration, 2020
This article aims to discuss the health of the public administration discipline in the US higher education system. In particular, it debates two possible alternatives: decline or reposition. The paper analyzes the academic offers of political science, public policy, and public administration programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Political Science
Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
The purpose of this study is to characterize the graduate education development for creating world-class universities from the insight of the doctoral education in China. A systematic review is applied to examine the doctoral education development in contemporary China. The findings argue that there are tremendous challenges in China's current…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Program Development, Educational Development, Doctoral Programs
Walsh, Anita; Powell, Philip – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
The Master's of Business Administration (MBA) degree is a long-standing, globally recognised qualification for aspiring business leaders. Yet, the qualification has changed little over its history, despite substantial changes in the role and practice of business. Notwithstanding much introspection, many MBA programmes have not been transformed.…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Graduate Study
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
Allen, Benjamin – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
Despite its popularity in education studies literature, interdisciplinary science education is mostly considered outside the multitude of social forces that drive education reform. This has contributed to a mythologizing of interdisciplinary science education and lead to assumptions about the necessity of its intervention into science education…
Descriptors: Ideology, Science Education, Educational Policy, Interdisciplinary Approach
Ladenheim, Roberta Inés; Hernández, Cecilia Inés – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2018
Healthcare professionals' education is evolving to meet people's needs towards a more comprehensive, collaborative and interdisciplinary training. In medical education in Argentina, in the context of international discussions around competence-based education (CBE), competence frameworks are being developed for undergraduate and postgraduate…
Descriptors: Health Services, Interdisciplinary Approach, Patients, Safety
Sharon Friesen; Michele Jacobsen – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Faculties of Education in North America are experiencing an increase in demand for professional graduate programs that provide flexible and accessible research pathways for working professionals. Our School of Education offers high quality professional graduate programs that increase access and respond directly to complex needs and problems of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Graduate Study, Active Learning, Blended Learning
Bloch, Roland; Mitterle, Alexander – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This article seeks to shed light on current dynamics of stratification in changing higher education and proposes an analytical perspective to account for these dynamics based on Martin Trow's work on "the analysis of status." In research on higher education, the term "stratification" is generally understood as a metaphor that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Government School Relationship
Mittman, Elizabeth; Santos, Krsna – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2019
Graduate education in the humanities struggles with weighty traditions, constrained (fiscal) resources, and a legacy of elitism and cultural homogeneity. As the makeup of graduate students becomes ever more diverse in terms of income, ethnicity, sexuality, citizenship, and disability, graduate programs are working through the challenges and…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Humanities, Student Diversity, Nontraditional Students
Riggio, Ronald E. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2013
The best way to describe the current status of Leadership Studies is that it is an "emerging discipline." Few universities have departments, or even programs, in Leadership, and those that do exist usually have a modifier (e.g., "'Organizational' Leadership," "'Educational' Leadership"), so we are, at best, emerging…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership, Intellectual Disciplines, Universities
Borrego, Maura; Boden, Daniel; Newswander, Lynita K. – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
We employ Scott's three pillars of institutions (regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive) to investigate how higher education organizations change to support interdisciplinary graduate education. Using document analysis and case study approaches, we illustrate how strategies which address both policies and cultural norms are most…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Educational Change
Barnett, Pamela; Gunersel, Adalet Baris – Educational Policy, 2014
In implementing a university-wide programmatic innovation to prepare graduate students to become more effective instructors in their future careers as university educators, a faculty development center encountered various types of resistance, ranging from the structural to the cognitive to the affective. Elaborating upon models of organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Organizational Change, Teacher Education, Graduate Students
Case, Karen I. – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2014
Community-Based Research (CBR) has been recognized as a significant reform agent within graduate education. This article explores the decisions involved in implementing a CBR model into graduate education programs. It uses the doctoral program in educational leadership at the University of Hartford as an example of how CBR can be employed to…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Community Surveys, Educational Change, Program Implementation