Interdisciplinarity: Challenges and opportunities for course and program collaborations

This workshop is aimed for teachers, course directors and staff at Stockholm University, KI and KTH involved in interdisciplinary collaborations of programs and courses offered.

About the workshop

During the workshop, we will be identifying main challenges, and best practice forward to deal with the difficulties of working with courses and programs that stretch over disciplinary and department boundaries. How do you identify the epistemic gains of choosing to give a course or program with other departments? What are the added values of the interdisciplinarity for the student group and how can you use their different disciplinary backgrounds in a meaningful way? How can interdisciplinarity respond to complex knowledge areas and to current demands in the work arena for professional skills?

We will specifically look at three pedagogical examples of interdisciplinary teaching:

1. Assessment templates for process writing interdiscipliary
2. Case as a starting point for perspective-taking
3. Examinations based on the problematizations of professional practice

Workshop leader is Rebecca Adami, Associate Professor at the Department of Education.

Preparations and literature

Read:

• Gantogtokh, Orkhon, and Kathleen Quinlan. ‘Challenges of Designing Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Curricula: Case Studies of Interdisciplinary Master’s Programmes at a Research-Intensive UK University’. Teaching in Higher Education 22, no. 5 (2017): 569–86.
• Manathunga, Catherine, Paul Lant, and George Mellick. ‘Imagining an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Pedagogy’. Teaching in Higher Education 11, no. 3 (2006): 365–79.
• Pharo, E.J., A. Davison, K Warr, et al. ‘Can Teacher Collaboration Overcome Barriers to Interdisciplinary Learning in a Disciplinary University? A Case Study Using Climate Change’. Teaching in Higher Education 17, no. 5 (2012): 497–507.

Registration

The workshop is aimed at all teaching staff and educational managers, regardless of subject affiliation, at Stockholm University. Participation is free of charge. Book your place in good time, as places are limited. First come, first served is applied.

Register for the workshop in our courseportal

Access to our course portal is restricted to users with a Stockholm University (SU) account

We also welcome employees of Karolinska Institutet and the Royal Institute of Technology to through the Stockholm Trio collaboration.Please register via the link below. 

Applications for external applicants, Stockholm Trio