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Interdisciplinarity: unexpected, disparate, and productive learning and teaching connections for new ways of thinking and working |
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Interdisciplinarity: unexpected, disparate, and productive learning and teaching connections for new ways of thinking and working
Dr Jillian Clare
Lecturer | Discipline of Media Communications| Faculty of Creative Industries
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Jillian is a member of the Creative Industries faculty in the discipline of Media and Communication.
She currently teaches in speech communication and political communication within Creative Industries, and professional communication into other Faculties across QUT. It is this cross faculty work that drives her interest in interdisciplinary learning and teaching, which is the subject of her 2006 QUT Teaching Fellowship.
Her interests include communication and the new, global economy, and the intersection of communication and leadership within organisations and professions. Prior to joining Creative Industries, Jillian worked in the Faculty of Business, School of Communication, where her interest in women leaders and leadership developed.
Her current research interests include the attainment of the vote for women, an outcome of which is the successful 1906-2006 Women’s History Shoebox Collection to be donated to the Qld State Library. She is also currently working with the Chief Magistrate, and Indigenous Elders of the Brisbane Murri Court, to develop a video documentary the workings of this innovative court. She has worked as a consultant in communication to business, industry, and the professions since 1987, and her research interests build on these links to examine how communication works internally, externally, professionally, and personally. |
Project Summary
This project examines interdisciplinary learning and teaching initiatives within QUT, with the aim of developing stronger, more efficient and economically sustainable, links between faculties and disciplines. Four existing interdisciplinary models are examined, strengths and weaknesses identified, and recommendations proposed. Graduate capabilities and assessment tasks are also investigated as possible contexts for stronger interdisciplinary sharing of learning and teaching ideas and resources.
It is argued that an interdisciplinary approach offers real advantages, e.g. flexible and authentic learning, quality teaching materials, maximising of university resources, reducing staff workloads, and increased time efficiencies. A number of interdisciplinary options are proposed for the sharing and management of knowledge across the university. The goals are to: optimise university knowledge and resources, maximise student and staff flexibility, ensure quality and scaffolding of shared resources, and enable academics to plan, track, and manage graduate outcomes.
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