An Empirical Assessment of Interdisciplinarity: Perspectives from Graduate Students and Program Administrators

Autor/inn/en	Shandas, Vivek; Brown, Stephan Edward
Titel	An Empirical Assessment of Interdisciplinarity: Perspectives from Graduate Students and Program Administrators
Quelle	In: Innovative Higher Education, 41 (2016) 5, S.411-423 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-5627
DOI	10.1007/s10755-016-9362-y
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Administrators; Higher Education; Case Studies; Urban Planning; Program Evaluation; Student Attitudes; Administrator Attitudes; Interdisciplinary Approach; Surveys; Graduate Study + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Stadtplanung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Schülerverhalten; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	Interdisciplinarity is heralded as a relatively new educational and research paradigm that can effectively address complex problems at disciplinary boundaries. Yet little is known about the extent to which interdisciplinarity has penetrated higher education, nor about how students and program administrators view its usefulness. Through a case study of one field, urban planning, we assessed the extent to which graduate students and program administrators understand and support interdisciplinarity in the departments. We also assessed the extent to which specific factors might affect levels of support. Our survey results suggest differing attitudes between students and administrators and diverse opinions as to whether interdisciplinarity provides a practicable approach to addressing societal challenges. We offer a model for fostering interdisciplinarity and developing empirical evaluations of programs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01