General Education: Pedagogy in GE

Designing Interdisciplinary Education serves as a foothold for interdisciplinary initiatives in higher education, whether it be programmes, minors, courses or extra-curricular activities. It offers accessible guidance and practical advice for university teachers and curriculum leaders who aim to develop, implement and sustain a successful interdisciplinary approach to their teaching at the classroom, course or programme level.

This is one of the few books available that successfully integrates interdisciplinary content, technology, diversity, and suggestions for classroom management. It is intended for the teacher interested in offering, assessing, and evaluating an integrated curriculum through instruction.

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.

A Chinese translation is also available.

This book examines the increasing popularity of creativity and play in tertiary learning, and how it can be harnessed to enhance the student experience at university. While play is often misunderstood as something 'trivial' and associated with early years education, the editors and contributors argue that play contributes to social and human development and relations at a fundamental level.

Examines how twenty-eight participating campuses developed new ways to create, implement, measure, and sustain effective interdisciplinary STEM learning environments.

An essential guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. Provides suggestions for using rubrics and alternatives to rubrics, including doing assessment for multidisciplinary work.

This book focuses on the interdisciplinary incorporation of place-based learning in faculty teaching strategies at the New York City College of Technology. Contributing authors highlight their creative use of the unique urban environment of Brooklyn, illustrating the integration of urban resources into student research projects and activities in the context of an interdisciplinary course.

This book examines and shares concrete and specific strategies and policies for doing liberal arts education in a wide range of contexts. It deepens readers’ understanding of the processes of adopting interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to the development and teaching of liberal arts courses, integrating diversity and inclusion in policies and practices of liberal arts education, and institutionalizing evidence-based policy making.

Interdisciplinary Higher Education" offers a contemporary of our understanding and practice of interdisciplinary higher education. Part I (Chapters 1 to 5) considers a range of theoretical perspectives on interdisciplinarity: the nature of disciplines, complexity, leadership, group working, and academic development. Part II (Chapters 6 to 18) provides more than a dozen vignettes of interdisciplinary practice, drawn from Australian, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

The whole-student approach as a retention model / Jerry A. Pattengale -- Incorporating social justice into teaching : an integrative pedagogy approach / Kathleen Manning -- Learning community classrooms and educating for critical hope / Gillies Malnarich -- Relational teaching and learning : the classroom as community and the community as classroom / David Schoem -- Toward a new pedagogy to help create a sustainable future / James Crowfoot -- Experiential and dialogic pedagogy in a religious and ethnic conflict course / Adrienne B. Dessel -- Service-learning and integrative pedagogy for engaging the whole student / Joseph A. Galura -- Teaching and learning that make a difference / James L. Heft -- Integrative approaches for sustained diversity engagement in the early years of college / Angela M. Locks -- Assessment : rethinking the role of integrative pedagogies / Kimberly A. Kline, Edward P. St. John & Annie E. Connors -- Teaching the whole student / Christine Modey, David Schoem, Edward P. St. John.