Book description
What skills are needed for the future? This book argues for T-shaped professionals who are adaptive innovators, with broad communication skills and deep problem-solving skills.We invite readers to explore this question from the perspective of academics, educators, business practitioners, those in government, as well as researchers trying to measure more precisely just what it means to be a T-shaped professional and adaptive innovator.
Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Individual Perspective
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward an ISSIP T-Shaped Curriculum and Research Framework
- Part II Education Perspective
- Chapter 2 An Integrated Transdisciplinary Educational Model and an Associated Faculty Development Model Carlos Heeren, Melanie Cornejo, and Julia Lee
- Chapter 3 Bringing T to Community Colleges Lucia M. Elden
- Chapter 4 Force Field Analysis: A Way to Look at Challenges Facing Universities as They Try to Produce T-Shaped Graduates Jana Markowitz
- Chapter 5 Rating and Ranking Universities, What Criteria Is Most Aligned with Creating T-Shaped Faculty and Students? Gary S. Metcalf and Stuart A. Umpleby
- Chapter 6 “T” Is for Transdisciplinary Jeffrey J. Evans and Aubrey J. (AJ) Hocker
- Chapter 7 Preparing the Curriculum to Prepare T-shaped Professionals Gary R. Bertoline
- Part III Employer Perspective
- Chapter 8 Management Perspective—For T-Employees to Flourish: Be Mindful of the Culture You Immerse Them In! Michelle Grainger, Timothy L. Michaelis, and Paul Mugge
- Part IV Governance Perspectives
- Chapter 9 T-shaped Professionals in Europe Today and in 2020 Werner B. Korte, Tobias Hüsing, and Eriona Dashja
- Part V Defining and Measuring the T
- Chapter 10Developing the Connective Tissue of the T Gordon Rowland and Jason Hamilton
- Chapter 11 MyT-Me—Your Personal T-Shape Scoring System Louis E. Freund
- Chapter 12 From “T” to “Π”: The Other Leg That Systems Engineers Stand On Nicole Hutchison, Art Pyster, and Devanandham Henry
- Part VI How to Create 21st Century Professionals? T-shaped Adaptive Innovators
- Chapter 13 Research-Driven Medical Education and Practice: A Case for T-Shaped Professionals Nicholas M. Donofrio, Jim Spohrer, Hossein Seif Zadeh, and Haluk Demirkan
- Chapter 14 Conclusions
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- How to get involved
- Index
Product information
- Title: T-Shaped Professionals
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2018
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781947843165
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