Interdisciplinary foundations: reflecting on interdisciplinarity and three decades of teaching and research at Griffith University, Australia
@article{Franks2007InterdisciplinaryFR, title={Interdisciplinary foundations: reflecting on interdisciplinarity and three decades of teaching and research at Griffith University, Australia}, author={D. Franks and P. Dale and R. Hindmarsh and C. S. Fellows and M. Buckridge and P. J. Cybinski}, journal={Studies in Higher Education}, year={2007}, volume={32}, pages={167 - 185} }
Interdisciplinarity is widely practised and theorised. However, relatively few studies have reflected on university‐wide attempts to foster the concept. This article examines interdisciplinary teaching and learning at Griffith University, Australia. It reflects on the foundations of interdisciplinarity at the university and situates them within the broader context of innovations in worldwide practice; it draws from the literature on interdisciplinarity to traverse the broad understandings of… CONTINUE READING
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