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标题：Let the Grunts do it! – Studying the Embedding of a Multidisciplinary Master Education in an Educational Institution
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作者：Christian Koch ; Christian Koch ; Nathalie Nyffeler 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2016
卷号：228
页码：257-264
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.07.038
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractDespite much attention interdisciplinary educations still struggle to make full foothold in higher education. This paper study how an interdisciplinary master education can become embedded in education institutions. Educational research and institutional theory is used to conceptualise the interdisciplinary aspect and institutional change work. The case, Innokick, is a new education introduced in Switzerland. The education recruit engineers, business economists, and design bachelors. Cross disciplinary collaboration is central in the education as is close encounter with external enterprises and organisations that provide tasks for the students. The students develop prototypes of applications, products, a business model and business plan. The research fieldwork encompassed interviews, study of documentation and participants’ observation. The study show how relatively low rank employees, the grunts, is left with realizing a strategy of making cross disciplinary, cross institutional and research based education. In an entrepreneurial spirit the first semester showed how a strong culture developed yet many aspect under construction. Challenges include tightening the interdisciplinary teachers’ team, overcoming mono-disciplinary cultures at the involved education institutions, strengthening research and future employment for the students of the master.
关键词：interdisciplinary;innovation;institutional change.