Breaking Out of the Box: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Faculty Work

Author: Dennis F. Brown Marilyn J. Amey
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Category: Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education, Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education, Business & Management
Book Format: Paperback

Getting all of your information and collaborators from your department's faculty lounge may be a career-limiting decision. Amey and Brown, both of Michigan State University, give a step-by-step plan for developing interdisciplinary collaboration, from confronting tradition to causing transition and transformation. They also describe the groundwork

Table Of Contents
The first section of the book, including the introduction, presents a discussion of concepts and definitions of interdisciplinarity and collaboration, and introduces a model of Interdisciplinary Collaboration Stage One - Tradition; Stage Two - Transition; Stage Three - Transformation; The second section of the book examines how the interdisciplinary collaboration model and concepts make sense in academic organizations and affect academic work. The chapters focus on organizational, cultural, cognitive, and leadership aspects of interdisciplinary collaboration and are organized as follows: Organizational Structure and Bureaucratic (Re)Alignment; Including departmental structures, faculty role expectations, alignment of bureaucratic processes, and organizational neutral space; Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Academic Culture; Including disciplinary cultures, creating culture change through graduate training and expanding the culture of faculty rewards, and matrix organizations; Intellectual Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Collaboration; Including sociocultural perspectives, interdisciplinarity as transformative learning, and intellectual neutral space; Leadership and Interdisciplinary Collaboration; Including institutional challenges, team leadership, the role of cultural leadership, and learning leadership. The book concludes with observations from the research and provides summary thoughts on issues of neutrality, changing academic work to accommodate interdisciplinary collaboration, and leading the learning organization.

(BK-9781593111328)

SKU BK-9781593111328
Barcode # 9781593111328
Brand Information Age Publishing
Artist / Author Dennis F. Brown Marilyn J. Amey
Shipping Weight 0.3400kg
Shipping Width 0.160m
Shipping Height 0.100m
Shipping Length 0.230m
Assembled Length 15.500m
Assembled Height 23.400m
Assembled Width 100.000m
Type Paperback

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