Perspectives on Inter- and Transdisciplinarity
The Art of Regenerative Educatorship: A Developmental Guide
1st Edition
Edited
By Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Koen Wessels, Bas van den Berg
June 06, 2025
A regenerative current is rising all around us. Stories of the need to reconnect, heal and transform are becoming more urgent, challenging a dominant worldview built on competition, economic growth, extractivism, militarisation and personal gain. Our planet's resources are stretched beyond their ...
An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research: 2nd Revised Edition
2nd Edition
By Machiel Keestra, Anne Uilhoorn, Jelle Zandveld
June 30, 2022
We are increasingly realizing that, as a result of technological developments and globalization, problems are becoming so complex that they can only be solved through cooperation between scientists from different disciplines. Healthcare, climate change, food security, globalization, and quality of ...
Meaningful Assessment in Interdisciplinary Education: A Practical Handbook for University Teachers
1st Edition
By Ilja Boor, Debby Gerritsen, Linda de Greef, Jessica Rodermans
May 17, 2021
Today's university lecturers are faced with the challenge of educating students to see beyond the limits of their own discipline and to come up with innovative solutions to societal challenges. Many lecturers would like to put more emphasis on teaching students how to integrate diverse forms of ...
Seeing the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban
1st Edition
Edited
By Nanke Verloo, Luca Bertolini
November 24, 2020
The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- or exclusion, gentrification, or social mobility; others biological evolution,...
Chapters on Interdisciplinary Research and Research Skills
1st Edition
By Koen van der Gaast, Machiel Keestra, Laura Koenders, Steph Menken, Ger Post
August 20, 2020
This book is a special edition, compiled for to the MSc Course Research Methodologies as taught at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. It is a compilation of useful chapters from several sources on how to structure, set up, carry out and write up your (thesis) ...
Academic Skills for Interdisciplinary Studies: Revised Edition
2nd Edition
By Koen Gaast, Laura Koenders, Ger Post
July 19, 2019
What's a theoretical framework for? How do you effectively present your data in a figure? What's the secret to a good presentation? As an interdisciplinary student, you delve into theories and research methods from a whole range of disciplines. Academic skills are the tools that you can use to take...
Wicked Philosophy: Philosophy of Science and Vision Development for Complex Problems
1st Edition
By Coyan Tromp
August 01, 2018
Wicked Philosophy. Philosophy of Science and Vision Development for Complex Problems provides an overview of the philosophy of the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, and explores how insights from these three domains can be integrated to help find solutions for the complex, '...
Interdisciplinary Learning Activities
1st Edition
By Hannah Edelbroek, Myrte Mijnders, Ger Post
January 08, 2018
As the complex societal and technological challenges of the 21st century cannot be addressed by solutions from just one field of expertise, academics are increasingly expected to cross the disciplinary boundaries. 'Interdisciplinary Learning Activities' contains concrete suggestions in the form of ...
Designing Interdisciplinary Education: A Practical Handbook for University Teachers
1st Edition
By Linda de Greef, Ger Post, Christianne Vink, Lucy Wenting
January 28, 2017
Interdisciplinary education has been identified by many educational organisations in Europe and the United States as important for what lies ahead, and it has become a buzzword in some debates about educating for the future. Now, more than ever, higher education is challenged to educate students to...