Configurations of Interdisciplinarity within Education: Danish Experiences in a Global Educational Space. Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

This book explores how everyday life within educational institutions changes in response to ideas of interdisciplinarity at policy level. It provides new insights into different configurations of interdisciplinarity, which traverses all levels of the Danish educational system. Offering a novel perspective to interdisciplinarity in terms of its configurations, the book discusses the Danish educational system and its current transformations, showing how progressive ideas are entangled with new forms of accountability and complex responsibilities. It identifies the concrete challenges that interdisciplinarity is expected to solve, and the organizational changes resulting from the solutions introduced, arguing that interdisciplinarity in education is neither a uniform or consistent process, nor are the kinds of disciplining it may yield. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of interdisciplinary education, pedagogy, comparative education and northern European educational and welfare systems. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures Preface 1. Introduction: Configurations of interdisciplinarity across the educational system 2. Interdisciplinarity configured as problem-based learning and proliferating children’s sociability and teachers’ passion in primary and lower-secondary education 3. Interdisciplinarity and accountability in upper-secondary education 4. Interdisciplinarity in the University Colleges: Versions of interprofessional responsibility 5. Loud and soft voices of interdisciplinarity in higher education 6. Conclusion: Configurations of interdisciplinarity: Justifications, re-organisations and new forms of disciplining Index