Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Group
The group was set up in 2005 to explore all facets of interdisciplinary teaching and learning. This includes investigating the student experience, examining the ways in which institutions encourage or discourage cross-disciplinary collaboration (in teaching), exploring how Subject Centres can support staff teaching on interdisciplinary programmes and supporting staff who do not have an obvious Subject Centre home.
Timescale
January, 2005 - December, 2008
Key contact(s):
John Canning
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
j.canning@soton.ac.uk
Funded by:
The Higher Education Academy
www.heacademy.ac.uk
Project aims:
- To explore and investigate the student experience of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programmes.
- To explore and investigate the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity in teaching.
- To identify good practice in interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
- To support academics teaching on interdisciplinary programmes and in ‘emerging’ disciplines.
Outcomes:
Publications
Disciplines in dialogue: Disciplinary perspectives on interdisciplinary teaching and learning
Edited by John Canning
ISBN: 978-1-905788-49-1
November 2007
Available to download (pdf, 486Kb).
Interdisciplinarity:a literature review
Angelique Chettiparamb
ISBN: 978-1-905788-36-1
November 2007
Available to download (pdf, 508Kb).
The impact of the internal economy of higher education institutions on interdisciplinary teaching and learning
Neill Thew
ISBN: 978-1-905788-50-7
November 2007
Available to download (pdf, 407Kb).
Projects
Project C1:
An investigation into the student experience of Interdisciplinary Masters' Programmes. Student experiences of interdisciplinary Master's courses
Lindsey McEwen and Ros Jennings, University of Gloucestershire, and Rob Duck, University of Dundee
Project C2:
An evaluation of the student experience of interprofessional learning (IPL) at Masters level at University Campus Suffolk,
Jane Parr and Jane Harvey, University Campus Suffolk
Project D:
An investigation of how Subject Centres can support academics teaching on emerging and 'uncovered' courses. Supporting academics teaching on emerging and 'uncovered' courses: cognitive science as a case study
Tom Simpson, Psychology Network, University of York
Workshops and conferences
Disciplines in Dialogue: A sustainability case study
The Higher Education Academy, York, 5 December 2005
Disciplines in dialogue II: interdisciplinary teaching and learning
University of Birmingham, 13-14 July 2007
Integrating interdisciplinarity: learning, leadership, life
Clare College Cambridge, 10-11 September 2007
Further resources available on our website:
Good Practice Guide: Interdisciplinarity
R J Ellis (2003)
Good Practice Guide: Teaching social sciences in area studies programmes
John Gaffney (2003)
Paper: Interdisciplinary teaching and learning in Area Studies
John Canning (2004)
Good Practice Guide: Psychology and linguistics: what do we need to teach each other?
Anne H Anderson (2005)
