Interdisciplinary higher education perspectives and practicalities /

Interdisciplinary Higher Education offers a contemporary of our understanding and practice of interdisciplinary higher education. Part I (Chapters 1 to 5) considers a range of theoretical perspectives on interdisciplinarity: the nature of disciplines, complexity, leadership, group working, academic...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Davies, Martin, Devlin, Marcia, Tight, Malcolm
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
Series:International perspectives on higher education research ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Education > Higher.
Education > Research.
Education.
Philosophy & theory of education.
Education, Higher.
Online Access:Full-text access
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Summary:Interdisciplinary Higher Education offers a contemporary of our understanding and practice of interdisciplinary higher education. Part I (Chapters 1 to 5) considers a range of theoretical perspectives on interdisciplinarity: the nature of disciplines, complexity, leadership, group working, academic development. Part II (Chapters 6 to 18) provides more than a dozen vignettes of interdisciplinary practice, drawn from Australia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 349 p.) : ill.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780857243720 (electronic bk.) :
ISSN:1479-3628 ;

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