In Interdisciplinary Courses and Team Teaching: New Arrangements for Learning, James R. Davis explains the benefits and pitfalls of interdisciplinary, team-taught courses and provides current, practical information on how to design and conduct them.
Using examples from existing courses, he presents a convincing argument that team-taught, interdisciplinary classes are an improvement over the traditional disciplinary structure. Dr. Davis uses these examples to construct an "ideal" template for college teachers and administrators interested in implementing this innovative teaching method.
Dr. Davis includes a listing of nearly 100 interdisciplinary, team-taught courses currently being offered at colleges and universities in North America. The course entries are arranged by general categories, such as general education, women's and gender studies, professional and technical programs, and electives. Each entry includes course title, offering institution, intended audience, disciplines, personnel, a general description, distinctive features, and a contact person with address and phone/fax numbers.
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About the Author:
James R. Davis, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Academic Quality, assistant to the Provost, and professor of Higher Education at the University of Denver.
Review:
?Few guides are available for faculty who want to begin interdisciplinary programs, and probably none combine interdisciplinary and team teaching programs. This text can serve as a guide for faculty 'contemplating or planning interdisciplinary team-taught courses, ' but it can also help graduate students define for themselves what des and can happen in the academy to strengthen and change what we have been doing....Davis offers programs that are working, providing opportunity to think about programs that may work as interdisciplinary, team taught courses, how those programs are organized, and what teaching strategies work best with them.?-The Chronicle of CQI
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- PublisherOryx Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0897748875
- ISBN 13 9780897748872
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288