Teaching integration

Rianne van Lambalgen and Iris van der Tuin

Chapter 7 in Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration, 2024, pp 114-135 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In interdisciplinary education, it is not only important for students to be exposed to knowledge from different disciplines, but also to learn to integrate this knowledge into both a more comprehensive understanding of the scholarship and a more holistic view of the world. In this chapter we focus on how students become “integrators.” We do this by looking at the learning trajectory of the bachelor program Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) offered at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. First, we discuss its conceptual understanding of integration. Second, we describe how interdisciplinary integration is taught at LAS throughout a reflective and interdisciplinary core curriculum. We explain how this process is supported by on- and offline tools. Finally, we present some alternative foundations for learning trajectories toward integration by complementing the foundational “Repko method” with other integrative research methodologies that may be chosen to shape learning trajectories that lead toward becoming integrators.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Education; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Teaching Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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