At the Crossings: Making the Case for New Interdisciplinary Programs

Miller, Margaret A.; McCartan, Anne-Marie

doi:10.1080/00091383.1990.9937631

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“…Stember (1991) and McLeish and Strang (2014) identified a sense of belonging and rewarding atmospheres as key themes. Leadership/leadership challenges was a further prominent code (Miller and McCartan 1990;Jahn et al 2012;McLeish andStrang 2014 andElsevier 2015). Both a strong sense of belonging and effective leadership was seen to support interdisciplinarity.…”

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A best-practice model for integrating interdisciplinarity into the higher education student experience

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Handley

2017

Studies in Higher Education

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Today's global society creates an environment characterised by complex problems, solutions to which require transcendence of traditional discipline-based boundaries, and new forms of knowledge-sharing. Higher education (HE) has a central role in interdisciplinary knowledge creation and dissemination, reinforced by funding councils, professional bodies and government policy. That notwithstanding, there is currently no recognised best-practice approach to interdisciplinary working in UK HE institutes. The aim of this paper is to develop a best-practice model to facilitate interdisciplinarity within the UK HE sector, focusing on teaching and learning (T&L) and the student learning experience. Based on the results of an exploratory and empirical enquiry a HE Interdisciplinary Model of best-practice (HIM) is proposed. HIM is informed by the development of four themes and six ensuing enablers from a synthesis of perceived barriers, possible facilitators and potential solutions to interdisciplinarity within UK HE. However, further research is necessary to validate the proposed model.

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A best-practice model for integrating interdisciplinarity into the higher education student experience

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2017

Studies in Higher Education

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“…Most positions are located in traditional departments, and students whose work is hard to categorize in traditional ways may be at a disadvantage (Gumport 1990;Miller and McCartan 1990). Thus choosing an interdisciplinary research topic may be intellectually appealing but not strategic or viable.…”

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“…The research paradigms in different fields (and within some fields) are predicated on different assumptions about what constitutes evidence, what standards of proof are, and what passes for "truth" in the discipline (Heberlein 1988;Laslett 1990). For example, a wellselected and rigorously constructed case study relying on extensive interview data is seen as a valuable contribution to theory and practice in sociology but is often dismissed in physical science as "anecdotal" and unable to be replicated (Miller and McCartan 1990).…”

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“…Evidence for the success of much of this work lies in the development and institutionalization (in the form of academic departments) of new disciplines, such as neurosciences, computer science, and materials science. A number of interdisciplinary degree programs have been created at the undergraduate, master's and, to a lesser extent, doctoral level (Fallon 1978;Hellweg and Churchman 1979;Masten 1979;Lange 1984;Miller and McCartan 1990). Many of these programs are in environmental fields (Perrine 1982;Bryant and others 1987;Christensen 1987).…”

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The Challenges of Conducting Interdisciplinary Research in Traditional Doctoral Programs

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1999

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“…Since the study cited, undergraduate interdisciplinarity seems to have accelerated even more, with almost all the growth coming in general education. For example, state boards of regents and councils of higher education now tend to see distributive general education as outmoded, and interdisciplinary approaches as the innovative norm (Miller and McCartan, 1990). This chapter focuses on the process of designing an undergraduate interdisciplinary course.…”

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