Introduction to the special issue: negotiating boundaries: effective leadership of interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability programs

David Gosselin (), Shirley Vincent (), Chris Boone (), Antje Danielson (), Rod Parnell () and Deana Pennington ()
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David Gosselin: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Shirley Vincent: Center for Education Research, National Council for Science and the Environment
Chris Boone: Arizona State Universtiy
Antje Danielson: Tufts University
Rod Parnell: Northern Arizona University
Deana Pennington: University of Texas at El Paso

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2016, vol. 6, issue 2, No 4, 268-274

Abstract: Abstract This special issue explores challenges and opportunities confronting higher education related to leadership at a variety of levels and the creation of linkages between students, faculty, administration, and community stakeholders necessary to address the many “wicked problems” facing society. One common thread among all the papers is that higher education is being challenged to collectively reexamine and change the paradigms under which they operate. Each of the articles express explicitly or implicitly that change happens through relationships and negotiating boundaries. The papers in this issue explore the challenges of leadership and program development at different scales from student and faculty learning to institutional initiatives that span across an entire campus. The leadership, relationship development, and boundary crossing experiences presented in the papers in this issue address four primary themes—Interdisciplinary Team Building Strategies, Curriculum and Community Connections, Institution-Level Leadership and Perspectives, and Interdisciplinary Leadership and Scholarship Support. Each of the individual papers address a pressing need in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work for development of effective, situation-relevant methods for negotiating disciplinary and professional boundaries.

Keywords: Leadership; Interdisciplinary; Environmental programs; Sustainability programs; Curriculum; Professional development; Institutional structure; Wicked problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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