Crosscutting issues in education

Abstract

Higher education institutions play a greater role in pushing the frontier of knowledge, and as a result, the domain of scholarships has been extended at a greater speed than ever before. The boundary of subject-specific knowledge has become slender and porous with the growth of interdisciplinary and cross-cutting scholarships. As societies become complex and the workplace requires employees with multitasking skills, the need for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge has been paramount in both academia and the workplace. The Interdisciplinary Research in Education (IRE) creates a common platform where researchers from various disciplines bring significant issues and knowledge from their studies and contribute to both policies and praxis of education. This volume particularly connects crosscutting knowledge and scholarships from subject-specific as well as interdisciplinary and cross-cutting areas of pedagogy and research.