The Common Core@HKU: Transdisciplinarity-in-Action Team led by Professor Gray KOCHHAR-LINDGREN
(Professor Gray KOCHHAR-LINDGREN, Dr Xiao HU, Professor Gina MARCHETTI, Mr Matthew PRYOR and Dr Julian TANNER)
Recipient of 2019 UGC Teaching Award
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Category
Teams
Affiliation at the time of the award
- Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Director of Common Core, The University of Hong Kong - Dr Xiao Hu
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong - Professor Gina Marchetti
Professor, School of Humanities (Comparative Literature), The University of Hong Kong - Mr Matthew Pryor
Associate Professor (Teaching) and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong - Dr Julian Tanner
Associate Professor and Associate Director (Teaching and Learning), School of Biomedical Sciences; Assistant Dean, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Award Citation
The Common Core@HKU: Transdisciplinarity-in-Action Team is led by Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, with Dr Xiao Hu, Professor Gina Marchetti, Mr Matthew Pryor and Dr Julian Tanner as team members. The Common Core is designed to broaden students' intellectual and social perspectives, and develop in students' some of the skills they need in order to address the complexities of life. The Transdisciplinarity-in-Action initiative moves across pedagogical questions, styles, content, and methodologies, and through this movement, stimulates student learning, creativity, and responsibility. The Team will use the award grant to build transdisciplinary student teams, primarily across the eight UGC-funded universities, but extending to the Asia-Pacific region and focused on three of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals - Good Health & Well-Being, Gender Equality, and Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Video on Teaching Philosophies