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| Titel |
Promoting interdisciplinary education - the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems |
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G. Blöschl, G. Carr, C. Bucher, A. H. Farnleitner, H. Rechberger, W. Wagner, M. Zessner |
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 16, no. 2 ; Nr. 16, no. 2 (2012-02-13), S.457-472 |
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250013176
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-16-457-2012.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems (DK-WRS) is a
programme that aims to educate students in interdisciplinary water science
through cutting edge research at an international level. It is funded by the
Austrian Science Fund and designed to run over a period of 12 yr during
which 80 doctoral students are anticipated to graduate. This paper reports
on our experiences of setting up and implementing the Programme. We identify
three challenges: integrating the disciplines, maintaining depth in an
interdisciplinary programme, and teaching subjects remote to each student's
core expertise. To address these challenges we adopt a number of approaches.
We use three levels of instruments to foster integration across the
disciplines: joint groups (e.g. a joint study programme), joint science
questions (e.g. developed in annual symposia), and joint study sites. To
maintain depth we apply a system of quality control including regular
feedback sessions, theses by journal publications and international study
exchange. For simultaneously teaching students from civil and environmental
engineering, biology, geology, chemistry, mathematics we use visually
explicit teaching, learning by doing, extra mentoring and by cross relating
associated subjects. Our initial assessment of the Programme shows some very
positive outcomes. Joint science questions formed between students from
various disciplines indicate integration is being achieved. The number of
successful publications in top journals suggests that depth is maintained.
Positive feedback from the students on the variety and clarity of the
courses indicates the teaching strategy is working well. Our experiences
have shown that implementing and running an interdisciplinary doctoral
programme has its challenges and is demanding in terms of time and human
resources but seeing interactions progress and watching people grow and
develop their way of thinking in an interdisciplinary environment is a
valuable reward. |
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