Book Chapter
THE GETTING OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY: THE EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CURRICULUM DESIGN
Ruth Beilin, Helena Bender
INTERDISCIPLINARY HIGHER EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICALITIES | International Perspectives on Higher Education Research | EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2010
Abstract
The environment poses many 'wicked problems' that cannot be addressed from a single disciplinary perspective. In a research-oriented university, it is a challenge to overcome discipline boundaries to create different pathways for thinking and teaching about the environment. This vignette reflects on two strands, performance and academic culture, in what is necessarily a complex system involving the development and implementation of a new interdisciplinary subject. While we imagined what the learning process was for the students, what evolved was a mutual process of rethinking expectations about how to collaboratively learn as an academic team. This chapter examines three learning tasks presc..
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