Authors: | Leišytė, Liudvika Rose, Anna-Lena Sterk-Zeeman, Nadine |
Title: | Higher education policies and interdisciplinarity in Germany |
Language (ISO): | en |
Abstract: | Universities have increasingly been subjected to policy- and industry demands to produce multi- and interdisciplinary knowledge. This paper explores the extent to which different higher education policy instruments are used to promote interdisciplinarity in teaching and research at universities in the German higher education system comparing them across different federal states. Based on a manifest content analysis of higher education laws and performance agreements with universities in the 16 German states, we were able to distinguish between three types of states: Those a) with a general use of policy instruments aimed at all universities in a state, whereas considerable differences could be observed with regard to the degree of coercion (enabling versus prescriptive provisions) and scope (teaching or research), b) a directed use of policy instrument, targeting specific universities, and c) a hybrid use of policy instruments using both general and directed elements. This paper provides a novel mapping of the promotion of interdisciplinarity in German higher education policies through a variety of policy instruments and hereby contributes to the extant literature on interdisciplinarity in higher education. |
Subject Headings: | Germany Higher education Interdisciplinarity Policy Regulation |
Subject Headings (RSWK): | Hochschulbildung Interdisziplinarität Hochschulpolitik Deutschland |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2003/41730 http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-23573 |
Issue Date: | 2023-01-04 |
Rights link: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Appears in Collections: | Hochschuldidaktik und Hochschulforschung |
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