Teaching against the grain: multi-disciplinary teamwork effectively delivers a successful undergraduate unit in sustainable development

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-481

  Hoare, Anthony ^a   Cornell, Sarah ^a   Bertram, Christopher ^a   Gallagher, Karen ^a   Heslop, Sally ^a   Lieven, Nicholas ^a   MacLeod, Christine ^a   Morgan, John ^a   Pickering, Andrew ^a   Wells, Suzi ^a   Willmore, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

multi disciplinarity; team teaching curriculum development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957132005     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504620802278811     Document Type: Article

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