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M. E. Veltman; J. van Keulen; J. M. Voogt – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Professionals are increasingly involved in attempts to understand and address problems with wicked tendencies, which require crossing boundaries between disciplines, organisations and stakeholder perspectives. This multiple-case study investigated six higher professional education courses in order to develop better understanding of how teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Problem Solving, Student Development, Learning Processes
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Ferren, Ann S.; Anderson, Chad B. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter explores three key features of integrative learning practice that play a vital role in fostering student success: guidance and support through critical transitions; entire development of the student; and engagement in project-based learning that connects learning to complex, real-world problems, and opportunities that can have…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Practices, Student Development, Active Learning
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Owen, Julie E. – New Directions for Student Services, 2012
Theories of student learning and development are particularly important in leadership education because they make prescriptions about how people can adopt increasingly complex ways of being, knowing, and doing--essential forms of development for leadership learning. Increasingly, there is a call for leadership educators to adopt interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Leadership, Student Development, Leadership Training
Schlenker, Lee; Chantelot, Sébastien – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Despite the increasing attention given to design in business, Design Thinking has had little impact on the quality of business school education. Building upon the foundations of long-standing critiques of management education and the potential for student-centric learning, the authors propose that the use of Design in Practice can significantly…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Design, Business Administration Education, Business Administration
Clouder, Lynn, Ed.; Broughan, Christine, Ed.; Jewell, Steve, Ed.; Steventon, Graham, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to succeed. Against a backdrop of massification and the associated increase in student diversity there is an escalating requirement for personalized, technology driven learning in higher education. In…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Expertise, Evidence, Feedback (Response)
Moore, Alfred – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2009
This paper reports on a pilot interdisciplinary graduate Summer School in Theory and Philosophy for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, which aimed to combine research with graduate teaching and learning. The paper will develop reflections on the ways in which interdisciplinary residential learning spaces can promote successful skills…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development, Student Development
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Ivanitskaya, Lana; Clark, Deborah; Montgomery, George; Primeau, Ronald – Innovative Higher Education, 2002
Presents an adaptation of Biggs and Collis' (1982) Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome which illustrates stages of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and explains corresponding patterns of learners' intellectual functioning, from acquisition of single-subject information to transfer of interdisciplinary knowledge to other topics,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Outcomes of Education
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Sankowsky, Daniel – Journal of Management Education, 1998
A discipline-based paradigm asserts that disciplines have intrinsic value, focuses on knowledge delivery, assumes students are empty vessels, and views teachers and students as experts and novices. A development-based paradigm values the learning process, assumes students have tacit knowledge, considers teachers and students as continuous…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Wright, Sheila – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience, 1992
This study, with 228 freshmen at the University of Hartford (Connecticut), found significant intellectual growth (especially in movement away from dualistic thinking) in most students over the year, with the amount of growth related to the number of completed interdisciplinary general education courses, which were specifically designed to promote…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Freshmen, General Education, Higher Education
Nolting, Earl – NASPA, 1975
This article describes the goals and programs of the Center for Student Development (Kansas State University), an interdisciplinary center for dispensement of student developmental services. (Author/HMV)
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Descriptions
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Buchbinder, Sharon B.; Alt, Patricia M.; Eskow, Karen; Forbes, William; Hester, Eva; Struck, Miriam; Taylor, Dianne – Innovative Higher Education, 2005
With increasing specialization, most academic disciplines have become highly compartmentalized. Numerous organizations in higher education strongly encourage interdisciplinary collaboration at the faculty and student level. The purposes of this article are (a) to provide a conceptual framework for explaining how and why an interdisciplinary case…
Descriptors: Workshops, Case Studies, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Savage, Mary – 1982
An alternative general education program for freshmen at Albertus Magnus College is described. The program, an interdisciplinary student-centered introduction to general education, is composed of two parts that the student takes concurrently: (1) a year-long seminar in thought and expression, and (2) a sequence of four (usually 7-week) courses in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Community Characteristics, General Education
Starnes, Suzanne – 1974
This document describes a new curriculum and educational program at the Austin College. The program, Individual Development: Encounter with the Arts and Sciences (IDEAS), focuses on the individual development of each student. Emphasis is placed on Austin's movement toward reform, the planning effort to implement the new curriculum, curriculum and…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
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Slinger, Joseph T.; Abalos, David – Liberal Education, 1976
Innovative use of film constituted the core of an experimental, team taught, interdisciplinary course designed to assist first-generation college students undecided as to major course of study to gain personal awareness of the interconnectedness of self and society. Course content, staffing, and evaluation are outlined. (JT)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Films
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Barnett, Ronald – Higher Education Review, 1990
What higher education has to offer society is the opportunity to promote the individual development of students through open-ended inquiry. The traditional curriculum has limitations, and higher education should make a greater effort to lower disciplinary barriers and offer access to higher-order cognitive, social, professional, and physical…
Descriptors: College Role, Curriculum Design, Educational Benefits, Educational Objectives
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