Facilitating Interdisciplinary Scholars

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Pfirman ◽  
Paula J. S. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Scholarly Productivity ◽  
Posttenure Review ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

“Facilitating Interdisciplinary Scholars,” by Stephanie Pfirman and Paula J. S. Martin, explores approaches to interdisciplinary scholarship with comparison to disciplinary traditions in higher education. The authors investigate the particular challenges of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and service for scholars throughout different mileposts in a scholarly career. Ideas to support interdisciplinary faculty are presented, from the creation of the position, to the point of hire, and through a career timeline to tenure and posttenure review. As many institutions have barriers for scholars working between departments, frameworks to foster interdisciplinary collaboration are discussed. Special challenges in interdisciplinary scholarly productivity, scholarly recognition, evaluation, promotion, and funding are examined.

scholarly journals Identifying the Underlying Assumptions of an Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Curriculum Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Catherine Nameth ◽  
Korin Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Adult Learning And Development

This reflective analysis focuses on a successful interdisciplinary collaboration between two academics from two different areas of expertise, chemistry and education, who worked together on a curriculum development project. The authors identify three underlying assumptions integral to their successful partnership (being ready for learning, having a commitment to collaborative learning, and seeing each other as peers) and state that their partnership led to new ways of knowing and learning. This article is framed within the field of adult learning and development, and views the authors as learners, thus offering insights into understanding the value of interdisciplinary research partnerships in higher education. 

scholarly journals A critical appraisal of interdisciplinary research and education in British Higher Education Institutions: A path forward?

2021 ◽  
pp. 147402222110262
Author(s):  
Laura H Evis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Grant Applications ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Research And Education

This article examines the development, impact and integration of interdisciplinary approaches in British Higher Education Institutions. It evaluates how the concept of interdisciplinarity has become popularised over time and embraced by disciplines such as archaeology. It then explores the extent to which interdisciplinary approaches have impacted research agendas, first, by evaluating the interdisciplinary research calls from 2019 for seven UK-based research councils and then, at a discipline level, using archaeology as an exemplar. Overall, interdisciplinary research calls only accounted for, at best, 11.9% of a council’s budget. Interrogation of the funding requirements of four of the largest archaeological-research funders demonstrated that successful archaeology-themed grant applications are reliant on interdisciplinarity. The influence of interdisciplinarity on British University’s research and education agendas was examined through analysing the strategic plans of eight universities, followed by an analysis of the availability and potential benefits of interdisciplinary undergraduate and research programmes. This indicated that interdisciplinary approaches are interwoven into university’s research aspirations but displayed variation in relation to their educational goals, with only 20% of institutions offering specific interdisciplinary degree programmes. Despite this, the skillset and research outputs produced as a result of interdisciplinary collaboration were found to be highly valued, thereby suggesting that interdisciplinarity will increasingly feature in the research and education strategies of British universities.

Higher Education for the Creation of Prosperity, Sustainability in Security and Development in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Yuliana Abd Wahab ◽  
Munir Shuib ◽  
Abdul Rahman Abdul Razak Shaik
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The Creation

scholarly journals Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions

Minerva ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Salmela ◽  
Miles MacLeod ◽  
Johan Munck af Rosenschöld
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Internal Funding

AbstractInterdisciplinarity is widely considered necessary to solving many contemporary problems, and new funding structures and instruments have been created to encourage interdisciplinary research at universities. In this article, we study a small technical university specializing in green technology which implemented a strategy aimed at promoting and developing interdisciplinary collaboration. It did so by reallocating its internal research funds for at least five years to “research platforms” that required researchers from at least two of the three schools within the university to participate. Using data from semi-structured interviews from researchers in three of these platforms, we identify specific tensions that the strategy has generated in this case: (1) in the allocation of platform resources, (2) in the division of labor and disciplinary relations, (3) in choices over scientific output and academic careers. We further show how the particular platform format exacerbates the identified tensions in our case. We suggest that certain features of the current platform policy incentivize shallow interdisciplinary interactions, highlighting potential limits on the value of attempting to push for interdisciplinarity through internal funding.

scholarly journals Exploring industry-university partnerships in the creation of short courses and micro-credentials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Fitzgerald ◽  
Henk Huijser
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Course Development ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Short Courses ◽  
University Industry

This paper explores industry-university partnerships in the creation of short courses and microcredentials. It is a position paper that precedes a pilot study. We scan the higher education environment for current practices and begin to explore the notion of a more consistent and strategic approach. Partnerships refer to both industry as partners in course development, and industry as partners in developing meaningful learning experiences in the context of professional and career development. The pilot study that this paper is connected to aligns with national and international frameworks and explores university-industry partnerships, to ensure such partnerships can be leveraged to offer better value to learners with regards to workplace and lifelong learning.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary research in the context of the development of educology

Osvitolohiya ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Svetlana Sysoieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Education History ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Qualitative Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The article shows that the widening of the subject field of modern pedagogy requires research that goes beyond the boundaries of discipline and acquires the features of inter- and multidisciplinarity; a new qualitative level of research in education can be provided on the principles of educology as a scientific direction of an integrated study of the field of education that focuses on objects and phenomena with a «rigid» and broad type of interdisciplinarity that goes beyond the established subject of pedagogy; the criterion for distinguishing pedagogical researches and studies in the field of educology (education sciences) is defined – «the type of interdisciplinary study». Pedagogical research in its essence always differs by the soft type of interdisciplinary, since the research of purely pedagogical phenomena and processes requires «narrow» interdisciplinarity: in such studies, the integration of close to the methodology and paradigms of scientific disciplines. Studies on education (education studies) can always be attributed to the «rigid» type of interdisciplinarity, since such studies have a «broad» interdisciplinarity: methods, concepts and / or theories of sciences that have little compatibility (philosophy of education, history of education, Cultural education education, education management, educational policy and educational law, economics of education, sociology of education, etc.). The stimulation of interdisciplinary research in education should take place through educational programs, the creation of various centers and the establishment of inter-institutional contacts, as well as the development of a financial policy to support such research, the creation of mechanisms for coordinating and supporting interdisciplinary projects in the field of education at the national and supranational levels. The leader in interdisciplinary research, according to most forecasts, will be social and humanitarian sciences as well as life sciences.

scholarly journals Adchocratic approach to management in the higher education system: Case of the Astrakhan State University

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-202
Author(s):  
Inna N. Akhunzhanova ◽  
◽  
Aleksander P. Lunev ◽  
Yulia N. Tomashevskaya ◽  
Aleksander V. Koshkarov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Learning System ◽  
State University ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Institutional Efficiency

Currently, state institutions of higher education are under pressure from business, the population and the state, which leads to the creation of conditions for dynamic changes in the internal environment of universities. This contradiction between the internal and external environment of universities in the conditions of dynamically changing markets at the post-industrial stage has a negative impact on institutional efficiency, and in these conditions, with the acceleration of instability, a third managerial structure begins to appear that can satisfy the demand for innovations organizations to hybrid universities, which combine a professional, administrative bureaucracy and adhocracy, with no severe restrictions in its structure. In this regard, the authors adapted the features of adhocratic organizations to the conditions of higher education, considered the possibility of applying an adhocratic approach to building the structure and design of an organization on the example of the Astrakhan State University, and identified a number of factors that limit the spread of adhocracy in Russian universities. The main results of the study and the following conclusions were obtained: the organization of training should be carried out on the principles of teamwork for the implementation of complex innovative projects, for which it is necessary to create and develop an appropriate facilities and resources; socialization is one of the key practical models for preparing students in the context of project-based learning and an adhocratic approach; any adhocratic system is a self-learning system, the formation of which requires the creation of appropriate conditions for training and development of university staff; the transition from a professional university to an adhocratic one must be carried out gradually, combining both forms of bureaucracy and adhocracy.

scholarly journals Topical directions of didactics development in the XXI century

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 03016
Author(s):  
Elena Ivanova ◽  
Mikhail Klarin ◽  
Irina Osmolovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Education Of Students

The paper analyzes challenges of modern society affecting changes in education that determines the current directions of didactics development. The authors establish that in didactics there are: 1) expansion of the set of objects studied by didactics (the study of general secondary education is supplemented by the study of higher, corporate, family education, education of students with different educational needs), consideration of the learning process in the context of digitalization; 2) the development of methodological approaches to didactic research (activation of empirical research, an increase in the role of research methods of the humanities in didactics, setting the task of developing evidence-based learning research); 3) activation of interdisciplinary research in education (consideration of didactic objects from the standpoint of related sciences - didactics, psychology, cognitive science, sociology). The paper consideres conceptual provisions in the development of didactics of higher education.

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