The knowledge economy requires an adept workforce and cadre of leaders to help address
the many challenges and needs facing companies, governments and societies worldwide …

Is interdisciplinarity the new zeitgeist for higher education? As Graff (2015) notes, the term is
both ubiquitous and contested in the scholarly literature2. Recognition of the need for …

The goal of this volume is to provide an overview of interdisciplinarity and American higher
education. It focuses on the impact of interdisciplinary work related to the functions of …

Interdisciplinary curricula provide students the opportunity to work with knowledge drawn
from multiple disciplines. Following suit, interdisciplinary learning requires interaction of …

Academic disciplines provide a framework for the transfer of knowledge from one generation
to the next. Not only do they shape our education and understanding, they structure our …

This book highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity in the academic landscape, and
examines how it is understood in the context of the modern university. While …

Bass, R.(1999). The scholarship of teaching: What's the problem? Available at http://www.
doit. gmu. edu/inventio/issues/Spring_1999/Bass_1. html Bate, D., & Sharpe, P.(1996) …

Interdisciplinarity—or the interrelationships among distinct fields, disciplines, or branches of
knowledge in pursuit of new answers to pressing problems—is one of the most contested …

Interdisciplinary teaching and learning do not claim any unique set of pedagogies. Instead,
interdisciplinary teachers employ an array of instructional methods to promote and support …

646 The Journal of Higher Education eral arts institutions offer interdisciplinary studies
majors (Rhoten, Boix Mansilla, Chun, & Klein, 2007); and over 40 percent of faculty report …