Modularity and interdisciplinarity: Confucian insight for STEM-related disciplines

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dc.contributor.authorPower, Kevin J.
dc.contributor.editorSupple, Briony
dc.contributor.editorDelahunty, Tom
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-06T10:33:48Z
dc.date.available2020-11-06T10:33:48Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe modularity of the education system is generally geared toward a career-specific path for individual students. While varied subject choices and extracurricular activities can provide students with a rich range of experience, increased specialisation can create a sense of separateness between disciplines which may result in the neglect of engagement between fields which are otherwise mutually informative and insightful. A greater openness to interdisciplinarity would have the benefit of exposing specialists to fresh ways of viewing familiar subjects with a further potential to inform and inspire new and mutually beneficial pathways of education and learning. I illustrate the potential of an interdisciplinary approach in the context of the climate crisis. STEM-related disciplines can draw practical insight from compatible and well-founded philosophical principles e.g. Confucian leadership principles which warn against overconsumption, encouraging the kind of environmental awareness which could avert or mitigate the environmental and societal impact of climate change.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationPower, K. J. (2019) ‘Modularity and interdisciplinarity: Confucian insight for STEM-related disciplines’, Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December, pp. 196-201. doi: 10.33178/LC.2019.41en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/LC.2019.41en
dc.identifier.endpage201en
dc.identifier.startpage196en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10739
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.publisherNational Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationen
dc.relation.ispartofLearning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectEducation systemen
dc.subjectModularityen
dc.subjectInterdisciplinarityen
dc.subjectSTEMen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.titleModularity and interdisciplinarity: Confucian insight for STEM-related disciplinesen
dc.typeConference itemen
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