| Title |
Empowering factors of interdisciplinary study programme design at university / |
| Translation of Title |
Tarpdisciplininių studijų programų kūrimo universitete įgalinimo veiksniai. |
| Authors |
Putrienė, Nijolė |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
48 |
| Keywords [eng] |
interdisciplinary study programme ; multidisciplinary study programme ; empowerment |
| Abstract [eng] |
The dissertation analyzes what factors empower the design of interdisciplinary study programmes as innovation at university. In order to reveal the peculiarities of the development of interdisciplinary study programs at the university, the dissertation highlights different interpretations of the concept of interdisciplinarity, discusses the definitions of different interdisciplinary (multiple disciplinarity) study programmes, purifies the peculiarities of interdisciplinary study programmes that influence the process of their design. In addition, the dissertation discusses the features of the empowerment phenomenon and highlights main theoretical factors that could empower the development of interdisciplinary study programs as an innovation in the university. Empirical research allowed making sure that factors empowering the interdisciplinary study programme as innovation design depend on the context of the design of a particular study programme, i.e. different context of an interdisciplinary study programme design shows several different factors of empowerment. Research allowed to confirm the assumption that empowering factors should change when the design of interdisciplinary study programmes becomes a routine activity. |
| Dissertation Institution |
Kauno technologijos universitetas. |
| Type |
Summaries of doctoral thesis |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2017 |
