1. Teaching against the grain: multi-disciplinary teamwork effectively delivers a successful undergraduate unit in sustainable development.
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Hoare, Anthony, Cornell, Sarah, Bertram, Christopher, Gallagher, Karen, Heslop, Sally, Lieven, Nicholas, MacLeod, Christine, Morgan, John, Pickering, Andrew, Wells, Suzi, and Willmore, Christine
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SUSTAINABLE development education ,HIGHER education ,TEACHING teams ,INTERDISCIPLINARY education ,CURRICULUM ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
A team-taught interdisciplinary undergraduate unit in Sustainable Development has been developed and run over the past two years at the University of Bristol. This has been a unique initiative for this university to take. As in most other research-intensive higher education institutions, teaching generally follows rather traditional disciplinary conventions, operating within departmental bounds. The initiative was unusual - and indeed ambitious - enough to gain the Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement (HEEPI) Green Gown Award in teaching for 2007 (HEEPI is a project supported by the Higher Education Founding Council for England; http://www.heepi.org.uk/green_gown_awards.htm). There are both challenges and pleasures in designing and delivering a team-taught unit in a traditional university setting. This experience is outlined and evaluated here, giving consideration to both the practical and the more fundamentally philosophical issues encountered in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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