The Art and Science of Interdisciplinary Connections: A Look at Dental and Dental Hygiene Education
This chapter offers a voice to innovative educators in the often tightly controlled environments of clinical dentistry and dental hygiene. Despite limitations due to requirements of dental and dental hygiene education, it is possible to include informativ
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Interdisciplinary Team Teaching
Reneta D. Lansiquot Editor
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching A Collaborative Study of High-Impact Practices
Editor Reneta D. Lansiquot New York City College of Technology The City University of New York Brooklyn, NY, USA
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To my colleague and friend, Jean Hillstrom, whom we lost too soon. Her contribution of a chapter to this book would have added a highly valuable perspective.
Foreword
Welcome to an institutional-level case study where professors at New York City College of Technology (City Tech) for over a decade have been operationalizing the complex work and best practices of interdisciplinary teamteaching. At City Tech it is a structural need to team-teach, as all baccalaureate students are required to complete at least one interdisciplinary teamtaught course. Yet as anyone who has team-taught knows, there is often a profound correlation between the care one puts into the collaboration, and its positive outcomes. In this collection, critical teachers candidly reflect on the challenges and affordances to interdisciplinary teaching, so that you, dear reader, can stand on their stable shoulders. We often profess to our students that the real world is not made of the “cells and bells” of traditional schooling1 and that interdisciplinarity and diverse collaboration are the norm. Yet our course design and acti
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