A large number of stakeholders are demanding more education for sustainable development (ESD) at Swedish universities, among them students who are expecting to find ESD in their courses. The aim of the article is to present a model for how to develop a course to include ESD when no updated textbooks are yet available and Bloom’s taxonomy is used for demonstrating the high level of learning that can be achieved without any syllabus changes. The setting for the case study and model development was a course in service marketing with a diverse group of students in terms of their background and education, at Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics at Umeå University in Sweden. The course took place in the middle of the education program. Techniques such as lectures, guest lectures, assignments based on the theoretical textbook content, and a term paper were used to incorporate ESD into the course in order to accomplish possibilities for generic use. A challenge in designing ESD was the lack of knowledge about the students’ initial understanding of sustainability. The model was designed to take this into account. The design of assignments showed clear possibilities of achieving high levels of learning in terms of Bloom’s taxonomy, including analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model is also an endeavor to encourage university teachers to introduce elements of ESD in their usual courses.
Most studies of the relationship between rhetoric and linguistics primarily take the content perspective, i.e., the overlapping subject areas of the two disciplines, as the main basis for interdisciplinary research involving them. This study adopts instead the perspective of the forms of connection between the disciplines. The object of the study concerns the microforms of interdisciplinary connections, visible in concrete texts, analyzed on the background of such macroforms as interdisciplinarity, among others. The proposed model shows a broader issue of connections of rhetoric with other disciplines, interesting in the context of the often unequal level of formal education of researchers in the disciplines they combine: for one is acquired formally, in the process of education, the other – usually rhetoric – informally, in the process of their own academic life – long learning. This paper adapts Bloom’s (1956) taxonomy of ways to achieve cognitive goals in learning, in this case learning an interdisciplinary approach relevant for rhetoric and linguistics. Using excerpts from texts, the proposed model provides insight into the process of combining rhetoric and linguistics from the perspective of the authors undertaking interdisciplinary research.
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Większość badań nad relacjami retoryki i lingwistyki uwzględnia przede wszystkim perspektywę treści, tj. nakładające się obszary tematyczne obu dyscyplin jako podstawę badań interdyscyplinarnych z ich udziałem. W artykule przyjęto natomiast perspektywę form połączenia między dyscyplinami. Przedmiotem badania są głównie mikroformy połączeń między dyscyplinami, widoczne w konkretnych tekstach, ujęte na tle takich makroform, jak m.in. interdyscyplinarność. Proponowany model pokazuje szersze zagadnienie łączliwości retoryki z innymi dyscyplinami, interesujące w kontekście często nierównego poziomu wykształcenia formalnego badaczy w dyscyplinach, które łączą: jedną nabywają bowiem formalnie, w procesie studiów, drugą – zazwyczaj retorykę – nieformalnie, w procesie własnego dokształcania akademickiego. W artykule została zaadaptowana taksonomia Blooma (1956), dotycząca sposobów osiągania celów poznawczych w trakcie uczenia się, w omawianym wypadku dotyczącego interdyscyplinarnego ujmowania omawianych zagadnień. Dzięki niej, wykorzystując fragmenty konkretnych tekstów, można uzyskać wgląd w proces łączenia retoryki z lingwistyką z perspektywy samych autorów podejmujących badania interdyscyplinarne.
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