Course leaders’ conceptions of the purpose of interdisciplinary education

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  • What: The authors used a phenomenographic approach, originally developed by Marton , to investigate how interdisciplinary course leaders conceive of the purpose of interdisciplinary education. In contrast with Category A where the main focus was on students` own discipline and the immediate task at hand, in Category D, the main focus was on building a much broader epistemological foundation necessary to understand and work with different academic disciplinary knowledges and knowledge practices. The main focus of interdisciplinary education is to develop students` abilities to apply disciplinary knowledge to workplace-related practices, and in doing so, to help students . . .

     

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