Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education

Abstract

1. Introduction -- Section I – Conceptualising Interdisciplinarity in Problem-Based Learning -- 2. Problem-based projects, learning and interdisciplinarity in higher education; Annie Aarup Jensen, Ole Ravn and Diana Stentoft -- 3. Trust me, I am the Doctor: Bridging disciplinary education and interdisciplinary professionalism; Patrick Kjaersdam Telleus -- 4. Beyond the two cultures: PBL and transgressive interdisciplinarity in the Techno-Anthropology programme; Maja Hojer Bruun -- 5. Three challenges facing new students in problem-based and interdisciplinary learning; Diana Stentoft -- 6. Supervising the interdisciplinary PBL project: Scaffolding the open-ended space of scientific possibilities; Ole Ravn -- Concluding section one – an outsiders’ perspective on conceptualising PBL and interdisciplinarity -- 7. Toward an interdisciplinary learning community of PBL supervisors and students; Lisa Lattuca -- Section II – Practising Interdisciplinarity in Problem-Based Learning -- 8. Opening the PBL Game: Problem construction in interdisciplinary project work in multicultural groups; Kirsten Jaeger and Annie Aarup Jensen -- 9. Developing successful group process in interdisciplinary projects; Chunfang Zhou and Lone Krogh -- 10. Students’ positioning in transdisciplinary project-based learning; Alice Juel Jacobsen and Tom Borsen.-11. Student interdisciplinary practices in a PBL study environment; Anette Lykke Hindhede, Marie Martinussen and Karin Hojbjerg -- Concluding section two – an outsiders’ perspective on practicing PBL and interdisciplinarity -- 12. The problem, the group meeting/tutorial, the PBL process and learning; Terry Barrett -- Notes on Contributors. .