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Cara Margherio; Anna L. Swan; Selen Güler – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
While the role of teams in leading transformations within academia is increasingly recognized, few studies have analyzed how teams form. Understanding the processes of interdisciplinary team formation within higher education will allow leaders to intentionally bring together individuals and form teams with higher likelihoods of success. In this…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Longitudinal Studies, Communities of Practice, Situated Learning
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Stoller, Aaron – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2021
This essay argues that in order for honors to occupy and transform the academy it must begin by transforming itself. Drawing on Homi Bhabha's notion of "third space," the author argues that the traditional epistemic paradigms in higher education are inadequate for conceptualizing the praxis-driven work required in honors. Honors should…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Educational Change, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Henri Santos; Caitlin Anzelone; Erica Gonzales; Hyun Deog Seo – MDRC, 2024
One major challenge that institutions face when launching transformation efforts is that they operate in "silos," meaning that they have separate departments--for example, student services, financial aid, and advising--that operate independently with little communication or coordination. Many successful transformation efforts include a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teamwork
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Yarbrough, Wynn – Journal of General Education, 2020
This critical reflection briefly chronicles the transition of a general education program from a distributive model to an integrative model and the resulting Capital Capstone Course (CCC) at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). The article describes a year long, team-based, experiential course that "caps" off our…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Universities, Capstone Experiences, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Fam, Dena; Clarke, Elizabeth; Freeth, Rebecca; Derwort, Pim; Klaniecki, Kathleen; Kater-Wettstädt, Lydia; Juarez-Bourke, Sadhbh; Hilser, Stefan; Peukert, Daniela; Meyer, Esther; Horcea-Milcu, Andra-Ioana – Higher Education Quarterly, 2020
Academics are increasingly required to balance the expectations of the 'old' academy with a future model of universities as interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary 'problem solvers'. This paper highlights changing expectations of academics in producing alternative research outcomes in collaborative, practice-based research. Through a series of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, College Faculty, Futures (of Society), Workshops
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Lustrea, Anca; Crasovan, Mariana – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
In the last twenty-five years' Romanian society sought solutions for the improvement of students' performances. Many problems were reported by diverse educational factors: students, parents, teachers, decisional factors and several solutions have been proposed. Our paper theoretically analyzes a possible solution to improve the students' academic…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Teamwork, Educational Change
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Cebrián, Gisela – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This paper presents an evidence-based model (the I3E model) for embedding education for sustainability (EfS) within a higher education institution. This model emerged from a doctoral research that examined organisational learning and change processes at the University of Southampton to build EfS into the university curriculum. The researcher aimed…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Undergraduate Students, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Englund, Claire – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to offer interdisciplinary education programmes; however, their implementation is not uncomplicated. Particularly where parts of a programme are delivered by different departments, academic development activities to change practices and develop a coherent interdisciplinary programme are…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teamwork, Higher Education, Educational Development
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Hitt, Sarah Jayne; Holles, Cortney E. P.; Lefton, Toni – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
This article discusses two multidisciplinary courses created at the Colorado School of Mines that were developed to integrate ethics into the first-year engineering curriculum: "Nature and Human Values" (NHV) and "Innovation and Discovery in Engineering, Arts, and Sciences" (IDEAS). In both NHV and IDEAS, our objectives are to…
Descriptors: Design, Ethics, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Rosenthal, Matthew M. – Online Submission, 2020
This study was designed to understand how a school can transform its instructional practices and collaborative structures to bring about rigorous, relevant, and engaging learning for all students. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to determine how a school can create a culture of innovation in teaching practices. This case study…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Innovation, Teaching Methods, 21st Century Skills
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Lam, Cho Kwong Charlie; Hoang, Cuong Huu; Lau, Ricky Wai Kiu; Cahusac de Caux, Basil; Chen, Yang; Tan, Qiao Qian; Pretorius, Lynette – Studies in Continuing Education, 2019
There has been increasing recognition for the need to reform doctoral training practices to foster students' personal epistemology. This study describes the design and evaluation of a learning experience designed to help students understand the scholarly publication process. Firstly, this study discusses the design of the learning experience,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Doctoral Programs, Epistemology, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Nikolakaki, Maria; Dossa, Katerina; Moraiti, Tzeni – Curriculum Journal, 2012
Through analysis of exercises offered in mathematics textbooks, this article investigates the discursive practice of cross-curricularity and group work teaching that was advocated in the 2007 reform of mathematics education in Greek primary schools. The conclusion of the research is that the organisation of school knowledge is vertical, and strong…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Classification
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Johnston, Keith; Conneely, Claire; Murchan, Damian; Tangney, Brendan – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015
Bridge21 is an innovative approach to learning for secondary education that was originally conceptualised as part of a social outreach intervention in the authors' third-level institution whereby participants attended workshops at a dedicated learning space on campus focusing on a particular model of technology-mediated group-based learning. This…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Intervention, Skill Development, Multiple Literacies
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Johnson, Elizabeth O.; Charchanti, Antonia V.; Troupis, Theodore G. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2012
It has become increasingly apparent that no single method for teaching anatomy is able to provide supremacy over another. In an effort to consolidate and enhance learning, a modernized anatomy curriculum was devised by attempting to take advantage of and maximize the benefits from different teaching methods. Both the more traditional approaches to…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Anatomy, Educational Change, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Martínez-Cañas, Ricardo; del Pozo-Rubio, Raúl; Mondéjar-Jiménez, José; Ruiz-Palomino, Pablo – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2012
Higher education is constantly changing and looking for innovative educational solutions in order to increase the level of the student's knowledge and skills. As an important part of this set of educational policies, a new process is emerging for the ideation, planning and implementation of multidisciplinary case studies for students with the aim…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Business Administration Education, Business Administration
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