Long description:

Higher education is changing rapidly in response to the global challenges of the twenty-first century, but for disciplinarily-trained lecturers interdisciplinary curriculum and course design is a time-consuming process fraught with difficult pedagogical choices.

This reader is the first book to bring together key texts on interdisciplinary teaching and learning, all drawn from a growing literature of peer-reviewed academic books and journals. As well as presenting excerpts from these foundational texts, commentaries provide essential guidance on the relevant themes, helping lecturers to reflect on this fast-moving landscape.

This is an essential resource for those designing and teaching interdisciplinary courses.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Working from an integrationist vision - Iris van der Tuin

1. Students learning from interdisciplinary higher education

Unravelling (un)intended interdisciplinary learning outcomes - Jessica Oudenampsen and Jael Draijer

2. Designing interdisciplinary higher education

Strategies for supporting teachers in outcome-based design of interdisciplinary higher education - Esther Slot

3. Ten integrative research methodologies

Ten conceptions of knowledge - Simon Gusman and Sjang ten Hagen

4. Support and challenges of interdisciplinary higher education

Frameworks for teaching metacognition and reflection - Rianne van Lambalgen and Anastasia Hacopian

5. Teachers learning from interdisciplinary higher education

Engaging in dialogues - Lars Heuver and Sabine Uijl

6. Institutionalisation and governance of interdisciplinary higher education

Addressing the function of academic education by cultivating communities from the interstices - Zowi Vermeire and Joki van de Poel

7. Research of interdisciplinary higher education

A case for plural scholarship of interdisciplinarity - Annemarie Horn and Frank Hakemulder

8. Overview of online resources - Timothy Bland and Caspar Schoevaars