Many foundation years teach across a wide range of subjects, encouraging students to think about their particular specialisms in an interdisciplinary way. Doing this successfully, however, can be a challenge. The contributions below consider the experience that colleagues across the UK have had when designing and teaching in an interdisciplinary, inclusive way.
We also invite colleagues to join us for a round-table discussion, focused on the resources above, that will be taking place on Wednesday 15th July, 15:00-16:30. To join the conversation, colleagues must first join the Annual Conference Teams site, which you can do by signing up here: https://tinyurl.com/FYNAC2020
Once you are a member of the Teams site, you can join the conversation taking place in the Interdisciplinarity and FY Teaching channel.
Resources
Cindy Becker, University of Reading, Six things I never knew about Foundation Years
Kay Brady, University of Hull, All inclusive – A Centralised Foundation Year
Susannah McKee and Marie Stephenson, London Metropolitan University, Celebrating foundation year students’ success in an online change making poster exhibition
Madeleine Newman, University of Leeds, Subject Specialist v. Interdisciplinary Learning: Balancing the Foundation Year Curriculum (opens pdf in new window)
Kirsty Wagstaffe and Elizabeth Palmer, University of Northampton, Imagining Futures: Creative Approaches to World Problems