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Interdisciplinary Studies and the Real World: A Practical Rationale for and Guide to Postgraduation Evaluation and Assessment
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)
This article is an outgrowth of the evaluation and assessment process in a large interdisciplinary studies (IDS) program at West Virginia University. We argue for the importance of collecting and assessing quantitative and ...
The Circulation of Knowledge as an Interdisciplinary Process: Travelling Concepts, Analogies, and Metaphor
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)
In our society in which communication is so wide-ranging and rapid we are witnessing a significant increase in the pace at which knowledge is produced and disseminated. Bodies of knowledge intersect as they cross borders ...
The State of the Field: Interdisciplinary Research
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013)
Our understanding of the process of interdisciplinary research has expanded considerably over the last decades. The purpose of this brief paper is to take stock of where we are and where we are going. The first section ...
Building Students' Integrative Thinking Capacities: A Case Study in Economics and History
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)
Having engaged in interdisciplinary team-teaching in both the two-course cluster format and the single course format, we intend to show how we helped students recognize and find their own integrative insights between the ...
Reframing Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Collaboration through the Lens of Collective and Sociomaterial Theories of Learning
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013)
The purpose of this article is to begin to explore how collective and sociomaterial theories of learning might be applied within interdisciplinary and interprofessional contexts—in particuar the team-based collaboration ...
Interdisciplinary Studies and the Question of Being
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)
The question of being adds another dimension to interdisciplinary theory and practice. The interdisciplinary approach to complex problems requires engaging with multiple perspectives from various disciplines, schools of ...
Interdisciplinary Common Ground: Techniques and Attentional Processes
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)
Common ground in the interdisciplinary research process is the pivot from disciplinary to interdisciplinary perspective. As thinking moves from disciplinary to interdisciplinary, what is the shape or structure of attention, ...