Teaching people to think and work across disciplinary and professional boundaries
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Teaching people to think and work across disciplinary and professional boundaries Organisers and invited discussants: Lina Markauskaite, Peter Goodyear, Marie Carroll, Tina Hinton, Philip Poronnik, Kim Bell-Anderson, Simon Poon TIME: 11:00-11:45am, Thursday 5, November, STL Research Fest 2015 Developing students’ capacities to work in multidisciplinary teams, communicate effectively with people across traditional professional boundaries, and solve complex real-world issues are a priority area for future enhancements of university teaching. But what is really involved? What kinds of capacities do students actually need for working effectively across disciplinary and professional boundaries? What kinds of interdisciplinary teaching and learning models are effective? What kinds of teaching and learning approaches are most productive for enhancing students’ capacities? How can we validly and effectively assess students’ mastery of various interdisciplinary skills? In this session, we will share some insights from recent research and teaching, as a stimulus to discussing experiences and practical action in this space. If there is sufficient support, we envisage forming an action research group to collaborate in innovative educational R&D over the next few years. If you are interested in this challenging area but can’t attend the event, please send us an email and we will keep you informed.
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Teaching people to think and work across disciplinary and professional boundaries
- 1. The University of Sydney Page 1 Teaching people to think and work across disciplinary and professional boundariesOrganisers and invited discussants: Lina Markauskaite, Peter Goodyear, Marie Carroll, Tina Hinton, Philip Poronnik, Kim Bell-Anderson, Simon Poon The Science of Learning Science Node Sciences and Technologies of Learning Research Network STL Research Fest @ CPC 5 November 2015
- 2. The University of Sydney Page 2 Our motives and aims Background 1. Cross-disciplinary, cross- faculty education is at the core of the CPC’s education mission 2. The University plans to embed interdisciplinary learning across the curriculum 3. Avoiding interdisciplinarity silos 4. Building research capacity Building on collective “know how” 1. To share insights from recent research and teaching Thinking about practical actions 1. What can help the rest of the University in this space? 2. Is there sufficient interest to collaborate in educational R&D? How to get to grips with interdisciplinary teaching and learning?
- 3. The University of Sydney Page 3 Today 1. Some shaping ideas (Lina) 2. Insights from teaching (Kim, Simon) 3. Insights from implementation, research, etc. (Marie, Peter, Tina, Phil) 4. Open discussion: insights, suggestions
- 4. The University of Sydney Page 4 Some shapes of interdisciplinarities and interprfessionalisms
- 5. The University of Sydney Page 5
- 6. The University of Sydney Page 6 Interdisciplinarities and interprofessionalisms Multidisciplinarity Within disciplines Close disciplines Complementing Methodological Instrumental Single man science Cooperative Collocated Knowledge focussed Professional Transdisciplinarity Across disciplines Remote disciplines Hybridizing Theoretical Critical Team science Collaborative Remote Problem-focused Social Integration Scope Proximity Function Extent Sharing Nature Mode Role Distribution Space
- 7. The University of Sydney Page 7 Shapes of interdisciplinary capabilities Disciplinary expertise Specialised knowledge Broad knowledge Expertise Exploration Execution Experience ?
- 8. The University of Sydney Page 8 Some questions 1. What kind of course do you teach? 2. What kinds of interdisciplinary capabilities do students learn? 3. What pedagogical principles do you use? 4. What and how do you assess? 5. What does work very well? 6. What does not work so well?
- 9. The University of Sydney Page 9 General questions for discussion 1. What is central for interdisciplinary expertise? 2. What is central for successful interdisciplinary learning? 3. What does bother you the most about interdisciplinary capabilities, teaching and learning? 4. What should we do next?
- 10. The University of Sydney Page 10 If you would like to stay informed, put your name on the list or email us: Lina.Marakauskaite@sydney.edu.a u
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- Teaching people to think and work across disciplinary and professional boundaries Organisers and invited discussants: Lina Markauskaite, Peter Goodyear, Marie Carroll, Tina Hinton, Philip Poronnik, Kim Bell-Anderson, Simon Poon TIME: 11:00-11:45am, Thursday 5, November, STL Research Fest 2015 Developing students’ capacities to work in multidisciplinary teams, communicate effectively with people across traditional professional boundaries, and solve complex real-world issues are a priority area for future enhancements of university teaching. But what is really involved? What kinds of capacities do students actually need for working effectively across disciplinary and professional boundaries? What kinds of interdisciplinary teaching and learning models are effective? What kinds of teaching and learning approaches are most productive for enhancing students’ capacities? How can we validly and effectively assess students’ mastery of various interdisciplinary skills? In this session, we will share some insights from recent research and teaching, as a stimulus to discussing experiences and practical action in this space. If there is sufficient support, we envisage forming an action research group to collaborate in innovative educational R&D over the next few years. If you are interested in this challenging area but can’t attend the event, please send us an email and we will keep you informed. --- A brief session on interdisciplinarity at the Research Fest held by STL. The Science of Learning Science node at the Charles Perkins Centre will be tackling the issue of how to really get to grips with interdisciplinary teaching and learning. After discussing the issues, we will decide whether to initiate something that can really help the rest of the university as it starts to implement the plan to embed interdisciplinary learning across the curriculum.
- Our motives for this session How to really get to grips with interdisciplinary teaching and learning? Background 1. Cross-disciplinary education in a research-intensive, technologically rich, collaborative environment is at the core of the CPC’s education mission 2. The University plans to embed interdisciplinary learning across the curriculum 3. Building expertise in interdisciplinary teaching. Interdisciplinary education is not new. And over the recent years, interdisciplinary curricula have been proliferating. And there is a substantial number of already existing interdisciplinary postgraduate and undergraduate units and programs in various faculties. However, there has been little sharing of experiences and know how. It feels that without noticing we could move from disciplinary silos that we aim to overcome by introducing interdisciplinary education to interdisciplinary silos. What do we mean by interdisciplinarity and how to teach it are far from well understood issues. 4. Building research capacity in researching interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary learning Our aim is to explore 1. How we could we assist with challenges implementing interdisciplinary T&L by smarter drawing on each other experiences and know how? 2. How could we build collective research capacity in this area? Our specific today’s aims have been 1. To create a space for sharing some insights from recent research and teaching in this space. 2. Discuss needs and possible practical action in this space. Specifically we would like to know: What can really help the rest of the university as it starts to embed interdisciplinary learning across the curriculum? If there is sufficient support, we envisage forming an action research group to collaborate in innovative educational R&D over the next few years.
- Over the last few months there has been increased attention to interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary education. One of the hallmarks is the Nature’s supplement on Interdisciplinarity. The strongest theme is the lack of researchers and students capacities to work across the boundaries of diverse knowledge domains (disciplines, professions, etc). Aka. social struggle Yet, what these capacities are and how to develop them is, in essence, a “blackbox”. As one paper says figuring out how to work in multidisciplinary teams came “trough a decade of trial and error”.
- So what do we mean by interdisciplinarity? Some typical taxonomies: Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity (Degree of integration) Within discipline Across disciplines Close disciplines vs remote disciplines Complementing vs hybridizing (Partial integration vs full integration) Methodological vs theoretical Instrumental vs critical Single man vs team science Shared/cooperative vs collaborative Collocated vs remote Knowledge focussed (Basic Mode 1) vs problem focussed (Applied Mode 2) Professional/endogenous vs Social/exogenous What bothers me: The issue is then what do we mean “teaching interdisciplinarity” “interdisciplinary experiences” and “interdisciplinary teaching”? How could we decide what we should teach and create/choose productive pedagogies? What does it involve? How could we teach? How could we assess?
- Most importantly we even hardly know/understand what is really involved in Interdisciplinary expertise. ? – or may be a set of special interdisciplinary capacities: such as Epistemic fluency (integration of different kinds of knowledge, coordination of different ways of knowing etc.)
- What should we teach? How should we teach? What should we assess? How should we assess?