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Enhancing and promoting interdisciplinarity in higher education

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  • Seaton Patrick Tarrant

    (University of Florida)

  • Leslie Paul Thiele

    (University of Florida)

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Interdisciplinarity represents an effort to achieve integrative knowledge in an age of increasing academic specialization. It is an intrinsic feature of the environmental sciences and the emerging field of sustainability studies and is widely identified as a crucial means for academia to effectively address complex worldly problems. The promotion of interdisciplinarity within higher education has become widespread over the last few decades, but it continues to face significant obstacles. This paper reports on a survey of universities with exemplary track records in interdisciplinary research, to better identify obstacles to interdisciplinarity and strategies for success.

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  • Seaton Patrick Tarrant & Leslie Paul Thiele, 2017. "Enhancing and promoting interdisciplinarity in higher education," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 7(2), pages 355-360, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jenvss:v:7:y:2017:i:2:d:10.1007_s13412-016-0402-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s13412-016-0402-9
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    1. Shirley Vincent & Stephen Mulkey, 2015. "Transforming US higher education to support sustainability science for a resilient future: the influence of institutional administrative organization," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 341-363, April.
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