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Lucy Macnaught; Mark Bassett; Vanessa van der Ham; John Milne; Chris Jenkin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This study reports on a four-year project to embed academic literacy within one core course of a Bachelor of Education program. It involves an interdisciplinary collaboration between learning advisors, as literacy specialists, and lecturers, as subject specialists. It examines their roles and responsibilities and lecturers' perspectives when…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach
Marcus D. Sherman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The education of bioinformatics, as an interdisciplinary science, can be negatively impacted by (1) incoming students attempting to negotiate complex concepts while lacking the educational scaffolding of the field's constituent disciplines while (2) taking breadth-first course requirements from (3) educators who may be lacking formal pedagogical…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Biology, Instructional Materials, Computer Software
Dominic Swayne – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid survey instrument that would prove useful in identifying faculty with the capacity and inclination to succeed in team-taught, hands-on, transdisciplinary course programming. Using an exploratory, mixed-methods design, the qualitative component consisted of semi-structured interviews of…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Faculty Development, Capacity Building, Team Teaching
Davies, Jason P., Ed.; Pachler, Norbert, Ed. – UCL IOE Press, 2018
'Research and teaching' is a typical response to the question, 'What are universities for?' For most people, one comes to mind more quickly than the other. Most undergraduate students will think of teaching, while PhD students will think of research. University staff will have similarly varied reactions depending on their roles. Emphasis on one or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Universities, Case Studies
Leal Filho, Walter, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
This book, prepared in the context of the "UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)", also known as "Rio+20", contains the papers submitted to the "World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2012)", which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 5 and 6 June 2012. It pursues the following main aims: to document and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Conferences (Gatherings)
Zetterberg, J. Peter., Ed. – 1978
This narrative report on the development phase of the Program on Man, Technology, and Society (MTS), which was established at Saint Louis University in 1974 with the aid of a 5-year curriculum development grant, provides an overview of the original plan and a survey of the program as now established, with an analysis of the extent to which MTS, as…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Federal Aid
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Lamson, Howard; O'Maley, Patricia – Liberal Education, 1995
Development of a more integrated and globally focused curriculum at Earlham College (Indiana) is chronicled, focusing on development of interdisciplinary cooperation; internationalization of the curriculum; use of visiting scholars; and redesign of study-abroad programs to incorporate predeparture orientation, a structured ethnographic or…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Higher Education
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Downes, Peg; Newell, William H. – Liberal Education, 1994
This article describes an interdisciplinary seminar for college faculty which focuses on the process of discovering and crossing disciplinary boundaries to work with colleagues on developing and teaching general education programs. Participants were interdisciplinary teams from different institutions. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Higher Education
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Knight, Carol Lynn H. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1992
Suggests a process for incorporating critical thinking into social science courses. Explains preparatory steps (e.g., learning how to teach thinking and redesigning courses to include discipline-specific and core thinking skills). Recommends ways of reworking lectures, demonstrations, discussions, experiential learning, and assignments to address…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Course Content, Critical Thinking
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Weiss, Robert O. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1988
Describes DePauw University's program of speaking and listening across the curriculum. (MS)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Puglisi, J. Thomas – 1987
The program development project described in this report was undertaken at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to develop faculty expertise and experience in undergraduate teaching in gerontology and to lay the foundation for an interdisciplinary, undergraduate minor in gerontology. Three core courses for the minor in gerontology were…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Programs, Curriculum Development
Blewett, Peter – 1994
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a 3-year, federally supported project at the University of Massachusetts (Lowell) to develop a 4-year general education core program featuring both curriculum coherence and choices in courses for students. The curriculum was developed by faculty working in small interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, Core Curriculum
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Zlotkowski, Edward – Change, 1996
This article argues that the trend in college student public service cannot be sustained unless it is linked to the faculty's teaching mission, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary. This includes institutionalization of service learning in the field of pedagogy and within specific disciplines, and the linking of service learning to other higher…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, Education Work Relationship
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Chaffee, John – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1992
Describes La Guardia Community College's interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of critical thinking, focusing on the program's impact on literacy, reasoning, problem solving, and critical attitudes. Presents guidelines for integrating critical thinking. Discusses the importance of professional development to encourage curricular changes,…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Course Content, Critical Thinking
Heller, Rafael – Peer Review, 1999
If colleges and universities wish to internationalize the curriculum, they must provide faculty with foreign study opportunities and assist them with the design of interdisciplinary collaborations. Two institutions and one consortium that have created promising and unique approaches to this kind of faculty development are profiled. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Consortia, Curriculum Development
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