Boundary crossing
Boundary crossing competence is the ability to learn and work with others outside one’s own scientific domain, institute, culture, or context. It allows you to recognise, seek, appreciate and utilise tensions that arise when learning or working with “others”. It is regarded as one of the major competencies needed by future university graduates to respond better to emerging global challenges.
Learning across different practices (e.g backgrounds, disciplines, cultures etc.) can be enriching both for yourself and for the challenge you are faced with. However, can a diverse group of students from different practices be expected to automatically learn with and from one another and work across the differences that exist between them? The answer is no. Explicitly supporting and challenging students to make use of their differences in a positive way, can help to co-create new ideas as well as gain a better understanding of themselves and their own perspective. Incorporating boundary crossing in your education can help doing this.
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How to implement boundary crossing
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