This project evaluates students’ experiences of interdisciplinary learning and ESD at taught postgraduate (PGT) level and will investigate:
- How knowledge, understanding, abilities, motivations, language and culture, and conceptions/styles of learning that PGT students have from their undergraduate disciplinary homes (cf. Becher and Trowler, 2001) are brought to interdisciplinary co-learning environments for ESD;
- What kinds of learning can occur in interdisciplinary teaching-learning environments for ESD and in what settings can interdisciplinary learning be transformative (Sterling, 2001);
- How PGT students in interdisciplinary courses perceive, experience and approach different interdisciplinary teaching-learning environments/activities including assessment; and
- What students perceive as the learning outcomes/graduate attributes/skills for employability achieved through interdisciplinary in ESD.
The project will also evaluate staff experiences of developing and delivering interdisciplinary environments within taught postgraduate ESD courses and learning environments.
Becher, T. and Trowler, P. (2001) Academic Tribes and Territories: intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines (2nd edition). Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Sterling, S (2001) Sustainable Education – Re-visioning learning and change, Schumacher Briefing no.6. Schumacher Society/Green Books, Dartington.