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Direct linkLydia Horne; Amanda Manzanares; Nicholas Babin; Emily A. Royse; Lee Arakawa; Eunice Blavascunas; Lisa Doner; Daniel Druckenbrod; Ennea Fairchild; Meghann Jarchow; Barry R. Muchnick; Prajjwal Panday; Denielle Perry; Rebecca Thomas; Anne Toomey; Brian H. Tucker; Camille Washington-Ottombre; Shirley Vincent; Steven W. Anderson; Chelsie Romulo – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. The interdisciplinary nature of IES programs does not lend itself to traditional…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Higher Education
Hye Yeon Park; Carlos V. Licon; Jennifer Givens; Ole Russell Sleipness – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the integration of education for sustainable development (ESD) into landscape architecture (LA) programs in North American universities to understand its benefits and challenges and provide insights into the implementation of sustainability principles, pedagogies and teaching methods.…
Descriptors: Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Course Descriptions, Sustainability
Gupta, Sukanya – Intercultural Education, 2022
This article is a reflection of the author's experiences teaching a course titled 'Women In Islam' [WIS] in an English Department at a medium, public, Masters granting, Liberal Arts university in the Midwestern United States. This paper argues for the importance of teaching WIS through a multi-genre, interdisciplinary, and global approach. The…
Descriptors: Islam, Females, Higher Education, Course Descriptions
Vartiainen, Henriikka; Vuojärvi, Hanna; Saramäki, Kaija; Eriksson, Miikka; Ratinen, Ilkka; Torssonen, Piritta; Vanninen, Petteri; Pöllänen, Sinikka – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
This study investigated an international, inter-university and multidisciplinary online course with the aim of helping higher education students develop competencies for solving complex problems in collaboration with their peers and stakeholders. The course design was informed by the knowledge creation framework and ideas about cross-boundary…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Manoharan, Aroon P.; Viswanath, Shilpa; Sabharwal, Meghna – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2020
While the praxis of public administration in India is documented in the literature, its pedagogy, and the formal dissemination of its knowledge, is relatively unexamined. This study determines the status of public administration pedagogy in India through a review of the academic programs in public administration at accredited state, central, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration Education, Course Descriptions, Higher Education
Download full textYong, Lou – International Education Studies, 2020
Embedded system is an interdisciplinary, profound foundation and practice-oriented course; at present, in the traditional teaching mode, embedded systems in colleges and universities generally have problems such as disconnected theory and practice, outdated assessment methods, and low enthusiasm of students. Arming to cultivate compound embedded…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Active Learning
Szasz, Maria – Honors in Practice, 2017
Since spring 2012, the author has taught a 300-level Theatre and Human Rights class in the University of New Mexico Honors College. One of the centerpieces of honors education is careful research and thorough analysis of what is taught and why it is taught. In creating the honors class Theatre and Human Rights, the author explored how she would…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Honors Curriculum, Civil Rights, Teaching Methods
Hermann, Roberto Rivas; Bossle, Marilia Bonzanini; Amaral, Marcelo – Educational Action Research, 2022
In the context of enormous global challenges such as climate change, poverty, and the unequal distribution of wealth, sustainability education within higher education has gained momentum as a tool to train a new generation of change agents. Previous research has examined the relationship between sustainability education and entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Climate, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Fuels
Dean, Bonnie Amelia; Harden-Thew, Kathryn; Thomas, Lisa – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
With the burgeoning casualisation of the higher education workforce, the precarious nature of casual teaching has become increasingly well documented. Universities are recognising that enhancing quality learning and teaching must include attention to the provision of services, support, and professional development for teachers employed on a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Faculty Development, Role
Stoner, Lee; Tarrant, Michael A.; Perry, Lane; Gleason, Mikell; Wadsworth, Daniel; Page, Rachel – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2019
A collaborative study abroad program (between one New Zealand and one U.S. university) on the theme of global health has been offered three times in Australia with 59 students registered to date. The course was developed because it is believed that higher education can play a role in improving global health through the fostering of global…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, International Cooperation, Public Health, Educational Cooperation
Brassler, Mirjam; Dettmers, Jan – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2017
Interdisciplinary competence is important in academia for both employability and sustainable development. However, to date, there are no specific interdisciplinary education models and, naturally, no empirical studies to assess them. Since problem-based learning (PBL) and project-based learning (PjBL) are learning approaches that emphasize…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects, Active Learning
Taheri, Pooya; Robbins, Philip; Maalej, Sirine – Education Sciences, 2020
Langara College, as one of the leading undergraduate institutions in the province of British Columbia (BC), offers the "Applied Science for Engineering" two-year diploma program as well as the "Engineering Transfer" two-semester certificate program. Three project-based courses are offered as part of the two-year diploma program…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Active Learning
Thorsteinsson, Gisli; Kikkull, Andry – Design and Technology Education, 2019
This article examines the possibility of supporting craft education by incorporating knowledge students have gained via science lessons: such knowledge largely refers to the mathematics and physics taught in Estonian comprehensive schools. Results were gleaned from interviews with craft teachers in Estonia, in order to establish their attitudes to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Handicrafts, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
Buckley, Jessica Belue – Review of Higher Education, 2019
The movement incorporating sustainability into the academic mission of higher education has grown quickly in the last few decades. At the same time, vast interpretations of sustainability exist as institutions work to incorporate it into the curriculum. Therefore, using interviews with 42 individuals and observations of 67 courses, this study…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Sustainability, Higher Education, Educational Theories
Dauletova, Victoria – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
The article challenges the conventional formats applied by business and professional education in higher academic institutions in Oman. The shift from the current traditional educational paradigm to more effective and engaging approaches to instruction is proposed through the launch of an alternative teaching/learning model which aims at preparing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Business Communication, Active Learning
