A New Model for Training Graduate Students to Conduct Interdisciplinary, Interorganizational, and International Research

Autor/inn/en	Schmidt, Amanda H.; Robbins, Alicia S. T.; Combs, Julie K.; Freeburg, Adam; Jesperson, Robert G.; Rogers, Haldre S.; Sheldon, Kimberly S.; Wheat, Elizabeth
Titel	A New Model for Training Graduate Students to Conduct Interdisciplinary, Interorganizational, and International Research
Quelle	In: BioScience, 62 (2012) 3, S.296-304 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0006-3568
DOI	10.1525/bio.2012.62.3.11
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Graduate Study; College Curriculum; Universities; Interdisciplinary Approach; Teamwork; Training; Program Effectiveness; Higher Education; Environmental Influences; Teaching Methods; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; University; Universität; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Ausbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Environmental challenges are often global in scope and require solutions that integrate knowledge across disciplines, cultures, and organizations. Solutions to these challenges will come from diverse teams and not from individuals or single academic disciplines; therefore, graduate students must be trained to work in these diverse teams. In this article, we review the literature on training graduate students to cross these borders. We then present a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program at the University of Washington as a model of border-crossing graduate training focused on interdisciplinary, international, and interorganizational (I3) collaborations on environmental challenges. Finally, we offer recommendations from this program to those considering similar I3 training programs, including strategies for maintaining faculty buy-in, for scaffolding student training to cross borders, and for conducting focused group trips that give the students structured experience crossing all three borders simultaneously. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10