The Cambridge Foundation Year is convening a 1-day, in-person workshop to explore interdisciplinary pedagogy. This event is supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). It will bring together teachers and educational practitioners from different corners of the diverse learning environment within Cambridge, to discuss and innovate around this core question: In the Higher Education context, what does clear, effective interdisciplinary teaching look like?
The workshop will be designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas across practitioners who not only teach in different disciplinary environments, but who also teach in different institutional environments, from Faculties and Departments, to Museums, Galleries, Archives and Special Collections.
The day will begin with a plenary session, organised around identifying and discussing issues at the heart of interdisciplinary teaching, and how to do this effectively. Our roundtable discussion will be fuelled and focussed by three pre-circulated position papers. Following this plenary session, the workshop will proceed around 3 “case study” sessions. These sessions will offer an opportunity for colleagues to share examples of effective interdisciplinary learning in their own contexts. They will therefore offer a forum for the sharing of good practice(s), and an opportunity to workshop core questions arising at the heart of interdisciplinary teaching practice.