Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration

Edited by Rick Szostak, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Canada

• ContentsIntroduction to the Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration 1Rick SzostakPART I SETTING THE STAGE1 Learning theory and interdisciplinarity: reframing learning in terms ofevolving coherences rather than “true” representations or correspondences 13Angus McMurtry2 The philosophy of interdisciplinarity 25James Welch IV3 Interdisciplinary career paths 44Karri A. HolleyPART II WHAT AND HOW TO TEACH4 Interdisciplinary curriculum 60Katharine Schaab5 Designing an interdisciplinary course 77Mariana Pereyra and Ana M. Corbacho6 Fostering an understanding of teamwork to enhance teachingeffectiveness in interdisciplinary courses 96Ana M. Corbacho and Stephen M. Fiore7 Teaching integration 114Rianne van Lambalgen and Iris van der Tuin8 Integrative teaching and learning 136Bianca Vienni-Baptista and Sabine Hoffmann9 The value of mapping complex problems in the interdisciplinary classroom 152Rhonda D. Davis10 Addressing perspectives with the toolbox dialogue method 171Michael O’Rourke, Shannon Donovan, Jesse Engebretson, Chad Gonnerman,Lissy Goralnik, Valerie Imbruce, Paul Kjellberg, Marisa A. Rinkus and BrianRobinson11 Challenges in teaching interdisciplinary research 194P. Sven Arvidson12 Interdisciplinary academic advising 211Michelle Phillips Buchberger and Julia Pond13 Evaluating interdisciplinary education 229Tami S. CarmichaelPART III INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN DIVERSE CONTEXTS14 Enhancing education abroad through student-led interdisciplinary andcross-cultural research 248Stuart Henry and Mei Zhong15 The interdisciplinarity of the health humanities 263Renée K. Nicholson, Ryan McCarthy and Andrea Labus16 Interdisciplinarity and blended learning 279Rafi Rashid17 Graduate education in a hyper-competitive global environment 295Nathalie Dupin and Catherine LyallPART IV INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS18 When interdisciplinarity meets creativity: exploring interdisciplinarycreative teaching in the 21st century 318Frédéric Darbellay19 Interdisciplinarity and citizenship 341Aaron Stoller20 Information literacy in the interdisciplinary classroom 358Ben Brooks21 Interdisciplinarity and integrative learning 377Marcus N. Tanner22 Interdisciplinarity and future studies 393Rick SzostakPART V ADMINISTERING INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS23 University initiatives for inter- and transdisciplinary higher educationfrom around the world 405Ulli Vilsmaier and Livia Fritz24 Interdisciplinary teaching in a disciplinary world 421Gabriela Litre and Marcel Bursztyn25 Weaving interdisciplinarity into disciplinary structures 436Katrine Ellemose Lindvig26 Administering an interdisciplinary program: a practical guide 454Evan Widders

‘This attractive Handbook includes an international set of contributions that present a broad overview of the latest thinking and practices about interdisciplinary teaching. It documents major advances while reminding us of the challenges that interdisciplinarians often confront because academia is still commonly subdivided by administrative and institutional boundaries that are obstacles for effective collaboration.’