As a discipline, international education focuses on developing an international consciousness. There are moral and ethical, as well as pragmatic, consequences of the development of an international consciousness: In terms of ethics and morality, international education inculcates positive attitudes towards international understanding and global…

Knacktive is a one-term course that incorporates a highly select group of undergraduate students and replicates the intense teamwork atmosphere of a technology-oriented, professional marketing communication agency. As an interdisciplinary learning opportunity, Knacktive melds students from five disciplines--including art and graphic design,…

Despite the "progressive" influence of the English Plowden Report and Scottish Primary Memorandum on British primary curricula from the 1960s onwards, secondary education has generally continued to follow a more traditional subject-centred route and post-war educational theorists have not generally been favourably inclined to other than…

Law schools must pay more than lip service to the humanities in their curriculua. Despite the practical needs of the adversary system necessitating narrow sophistical reasoning, there is an urgent need for an understanding of underlying human principles. Law, above all other professions, is closely related to the humanities. (MSE)

In search of a method to increase the power of the educational experience for integrating student experience, many scholars have turned to the idea of interdisciplinarity. Apart from philosophical questions of values and epistemology there are operational problems of some significance. To meet them many advocates have proposed modifications in the…