Testimonial
Boundary crossing learning activities in two food technology courses
It takes little effort to implement boundary crossing activities, while the newly gained insights by students lead to better outcomes
At the Boundary Crossing Inspiration Meeting held in April 2021, Melanie van Berkum and Julia Diederen, teachers in the BSc Food Technology programme, shared on two courses in which they included boundary crossing learning activities. One of the course is "Introduction to Food Technology", a first year course in the first period, and the other course is “Discipline Integrating Product Practical”, the last course in the second year.
Their presentation and accompanying documents showed very specifically how they integrated the disciplinary, cultural, and university-society boundaries in these two courses. An interesting discussion focused on when and how the term “boundary crossing” should be explicitly used and discussed with students.