Interdisciplinarity and Undergraduate Psychology Education

Autor/inn/en	Goodwin-Smith, Ian; Pearson, Elissa; Ranzijn, Rob; Campbell, Alan; Lushington, Kurt
Titel	Interdisciplinarity and Undergraduate Psychology Education
Quelle	In: Psychology Learning and Teaching, 12 (2013) 2, S.159-167 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1475-7257
DOI	10.2304/plat.2013.12.2.159
Schlagwörter	Interdisciplinary Approach; Human Services; Undergraduate Students; Psychology; Graduates; Thinking Skills; Employer Attitudes; Therapy; Intervention; Knowledge Level; Counselor Training; Teaching Methods; Skill Development; Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Interviews; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Humanitäre Hilfe; Psychologie; Graduate; Absolvent; Absolventin; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Denkfähigkeit; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Therapie; Wissensbasis; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Australien
Abstract	This work identifies the human service sector as an important and growing destination for psychology graduates. It further identifies a number of key themes which flow from that observation and which are important to configuring psychology education in a way which takes account of emerging trends. The major theme identified in the research is the importance of breadth. The theme of the importance of breadth takes two related and repeated forms. The first is that graduates need to be thinkers rather than doers. The second is that employers in the human services stress the need for broad-based thinking and analytical skills to reflect social and contextual awareness of therapeutic situations and human service programmes and interventions. Stakeholders broadly commented that graduates seeking employment in the human service sector need upskilling in terms of a contextual awareness of the "real world". One idea which emerged in this research is that real-world multidisciplinarity is best underpinned by an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01