Integrative Learning

Daniel Blackshields is a Lecturer in the School of Economics and Teaching Fellow for Reflective Practice in University College Cork. James G. R. Cronin is a learning resources officer and program co-ordinator in the School of History and Adult Continuing Education, University College Cork. Bettie Higgs is a Senior Lecturer in Geology, and Co-Director of Ionad Bairre, The Teaching and Learning Centre, University College Cork. Shane Kilcommins is a Professor of Law at University of Limerick.Marian McCarthy is Co-Director of Ionad Bairre, The Teaching and Learning Centre in University College Cork. Anthony Ryan is a Consultant Neonatologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital, HSE, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics & Child Health at University College Cork.

• List of illustrations Editors Biographies Contributors Biographies DedicationIntroductionDANIEL BLACKSHIELDS, JAMES CRONIN, BETTIE HIGGS, SHANE KILCOMMINS, MARIAN MCCARTHY &ANTHONY RYAN1 Integrative learning in U.S. education: where we’ve been; where we're goingMARY HUBER2 Integrative learning for creative teaching: planning eportfolios for academic development in higher educationBELINDA ALLEN3 Problem-based learning as an integrative approach for cultivating person centredness and empathy in higher educationTERRY BARRETT & CORINA NAUGHTON4 Integrative learning in a campaigns and elections classJEFFREY L. BERNSTEIN, HAILEY HUCKESTEIN & STEVE MIKULIC5 Yes and…cultivating the art of conversation through improvisational classroom experiencesDANIEL BLACKSHIELDS 6 The learning journey – learning agreements as road maps to integrative learningMARY CREANER & JANE CREANER-GLEN7 Silence as presence: integrating meta-cognitive practices in visual studiesJAMES G.R. CRONIN8 Making connections: the use of ethnographic fieldwork to facilitate a model of integrative learningMICHELLE FINNERTY9 Integrative learning: the first year seminarBETTIE HIGGS10 Developing the Self in Economics: The Role of Developmental Space in an Integrated Undergraduate EducationELLA KAVANAGH & ASSUMPTA O’KANE11 Capstone modules as a vehicle for integrative learningSHANE KILCOMMINS12 Integrated team teaching and learning frameworks: developing applied learning environments for teacher professional development ANNE MANGAN & MARTIN FITZGERALD13 The drama workshop as a catalyst for integrative learningKATE MCCARTHY14 The course portfolio model as a catalyst for integrative learningMARIAN MCCARTHY15 Interdisciplinary science: integrative learning in first year undergraduate scienceEILISH MCLOUGHLIN & ODILLA E. FINLAYSON16 Learning beyond cognition - embodying integration from seminar to the stageJACK MINO & PAT SANDOVAL 17 Building Bridges to Learning CommunitiesGEOFF MUNNS18 Digital humanities and integrative learningJULIANNE NYHAN, SIMON MAHONY & MELISSA TERRAS 19 Embedding integrative learning in community based researchCATHERINE O’ MAHONY20 Learning by doing: a practicum for head and neck cancer preventionELEANOR O’SULLIVAN 21 Situating integrative learning in medical education through a communities of practice lensAISLINN JOY & ANTHONY RYAN 22 Joining the dots: the c.v. as an integrative learningAILEEN WATERMAN Index