Browsing by Author "Fiscella, Joan"
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Administering Interdisciplinary and Innovative Programs: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Arizona International College
Burkhardt, Paul (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006) -
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Web Design
Smith, Jeremy; Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)The theory of interdisciplinary studies can be understood to apply to the creation, not just the study, of a complex system; in this case, to the creation of a Web site. We examine the aspects of a Web site that make it ... -
An International Learning Community: Cultural Studies and Study Abroad in an Integrated Studies Program
Carmichael, Tami S.; Magness, Mark; Finney, Steven (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)This paper describes the inclusion of a cultural studies/language component and a study abroad experience into the University of North Dakota's successful and long-established Integrated Studies Program. These international ... -
Arguing for the Rainforest: High-Tech Topoi and the Value(s) of a Database
Sebberson, David (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992)When the World Bank created its Environment Department, no institutional mechanism existed to create, collect, or disseminate environmental information that had accumulated in the Bank. Considering the ethical and political ... -
Building a Culture of Learning in the 21st Century: Confronting Some Assumptions Preventing Us from Realizing the Promise of the Learning Paradigm
Bass, Randy (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)In the past 20 years some educators have given greater attention to a broadened conception of learning that highlights processes and a diversity of learning modalities. But higher education has yet to broadly embrace the ... -
Creating an Image Bank for Teaching World Religion: Challenging and Reifying Structures of Knowledge
Carp, Richard M. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992)Creating an indexed set of slides for teaching the academic study of religion reveals how existing structures of power/ knowledge shape the frameworks from which new knowledge emerges, and how that knowledge may affect ... -
Disciplinary Hegemony Meets Interdisciplinary Ascendancy: Can Interdisciplinary/Integrative Studies Survive, and, If So, How?
Henry, Stuart (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)This paper explores the increasing challenges and possible solutions to the sustainability of undergraduate interdisciplinary studies programs at public universities in North America. It analyzes the causes of the current ... -
Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: The Case for Textbooks
Repko, Allen (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)This essay makes the case for the disciplining of interdisciplinarity through the vehicle of textbooks. It draws upon (1) the 2003 Delphi survey of interdisciplinarians regarding opportunities and challenges to interdisciplinary ... -
Distinctive Challenges of Library-based Interdisciplinary Research and Writing: A Guide
Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)This article examines the current challenges of library-based interdisciplinary research and writing within the larger context of the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity. Based upon experience with college seniors ... -
Generating Integration and Complex Understanding: Exploring the Use of Creative Thinking Tools within Interdisciplinary Studies
Spooner, Marc (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)The following paper examines the links between the interdisciplinary process and the creative process and reviews the potential for the literature on creativity to propose and advance tools for promoting interdisciplinary ... -
How Libraries Cope with Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Women's Studies
Searing, Susan E. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992) -
Integrating Interdisciplinarity: How the Theories of Common Ground and Cognitive Interdisciplinarity Are Informing the Debate on Interdisciplinary Integration
Repko, Allen (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)With the role of integration within theories of interdisciplinarity still contested, definitional and methodological questions persist within and outside of the field. Recent developments in cognitive psychology, with a ... -
Interdisciplinary Integration by Undergraduates
Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)This article examines whether it is feasible to teach interdisciplinary integration to undergraduates, especially the demanding conception of integration envisioned in my "A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies." The 37 ... -
Interdisciplinary Integration in Professional Education: Tools and Analysis from Cultural Historical Activity Theory
Minnis, Michele; John-Steiner, Vera P. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)The purpose of this paper is to introduce readers of Issues in Integrative Studies to cultural historical activity theory (CHAT). CHAT represents a systems approach to understanding the sociocultural matrix in which ... -
Interdisciplinary Work at the Frontier: An Empirical Examination of Expert Epistemologies
Mansilla, Veronica Boix (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)At the frontier of knowledge production, boundary-crossing takes place at a variety of disciplinary crossroads. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of work carried out at five major research institutions. ... -
Knowledge in Science and Innovation: A Review of Three Discourses on the Institutional and Cognitive Foundations of Knowledge Production
Bruun, Henrik; Toppinen, Aino (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)Modern society is said to be a knowledge society. Yet the academic discourse on the topics of learning and knowledge production is fragmented. In order to build bridges between different traditions, we review three ... -
Making Interdisciplinarity Work Through Translation and Analogical Thinking
McCormack, Brian (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)Analogies are often employed in a variety of contexts as a means of translating across disciplines or perspectives. Such translation fails when it is thought of merely as transversal exchange, focusing on similarity within ... -
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Interdisciplinarity
Szostak, Rick (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)While postmodernist and modernist approaches to a range of epistemological and methodological issues are well established, there is less explicit attention given to the contribution of interdisciplinarity to these same ... -
Profane Illumination, Genre, and the Integrative Study of Literature
Petrolle, Jean (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)In addition to questioning and crossing disciplinary boundaries, Integrative Studies scholars need to question and cross genre boundaries, reaching toward innovation in presentation as well as methodology. Scholarship, ... -
Reflections on the Wellsprings of Interdisciplinary Studies and Transformative Education
Minnich, Elizabeth Kmarck (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)To make the case for the importance of interdisciplinary studies, Minnich appeals to its wellsprings. She reflects on how her own field of philosophy encourages questioning of assumptions and methods; on her political ...