Inquiry in higher education for sustainable development: crossing disciplinary knowledge boundaries

Challenges of integration of education for sustainable development in Handcrafts higher education

The purpose of present study was to analyze the current status of Handcrafts’ education in Iran’s Art universities in the context of sustainable development discourse. This idea was shaped due to the potential and actual capacity of handicrafts’ industries encountered an education model for sustainable development. The main question was how is the current status of bachelor of Handcraft educati...

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: A Epilegomenon for Lockett and McWilliams

Students Knowledge Progression: Sustainable Learning in Higher Education

The purpose of this phenomenographic study is to examine students’ knowledge progression in a three-year Bachelor program in Business Administration. Theoretical sampling was used to select nine students from a group of 200 university students admitted to the program. The students were interviewed on three occasions: Year 1, after their Management Accounting course; Year 2, after their Financia...

A Passage Through Science: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries HENRYSMALL

A METHODOLOGY IS PRESENTED FOR CREATING pathways through the scientific literature following strong co-citation links. A specific path is described starting in economics and ending in astrophysics traversing 331 documents. Special attention is given to where the path crosses disciplinary boundaries and how analogy can be used to model the thought processes involved in such transitions. Implicat...

Inquiry-Based Learning: A Model for Improving the Humanities in Iranian Higher education

The humanities in Iran face major challenges: the challenge of graduate unemployment, the challenge of localization, the challenge of the reason for attending classroom and the challenge of dissertations and articles without identifying and structuring real problems. To resolve these challenges, different approaches have been presented by the theorists. This article analyzes the problematic sta...