| This dissertation traces the evolving collaboration among a diverse group of people---including the PhD candidate, Angus McMurtry---involved in organizing and instructing a large interdisciplinary health teams course at the University of Alberta ("Interdisciplinary Health Team Development" or INTD 410). The general aim in the research was to introduce new complexity-based ideas about interdisciplinary knowledge and team learning to a portion of the course's participants, curriculum and pedagogy and then study the resulting transformations. Our focus was not only how the ideas would affect the course and participants, but also how the course and participants would affect the ideas. Out of this interaction, we hoped that new knowledge and practices relating to the education of interdisciplinary health care teams would emerge. The dissertation is presented as an on-going action research spiral, with three distinct cycles of reflection, planning, action and observation. |
