Browsing by Author "Repko, Allen"
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'A Jack of All Trades and a Master of Some of Them': Successful Students in Interdisciplinary PhD Programs
Gardner, Susan K. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2011)Interdisciplinarity has become a growing emphasis in U.S. higher education, and the prevalence of interdisciplinary doctoral programs is one indicator of such growth. Despite this growth, the ... -
Co-Teaching Social Research Methods in a Joint Sociology/Anthropology Department
Manthei, Jennifer; Isler, Jonathan (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2011)In the course of developing and co-teaching Social Research Methods (SRM), an interdisciplinary, upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS), the authors discovered that this type ... -
Collaboration: How Japanese Poetry Can Help Tech Writers
Major, David L. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008)Collaborative writing is often important for interdisciplinary teaching, interdisciplinary research, and technical communication. Interdisciplinarians can thus benefit from recognizing several key problems that plague ... -
Comments on Interdisciplinarity, Higher Education and Public Policy on the 30th Anniversary of the Association for Integrative Studies. Delivered in Springfield, Illinois, October 24, 2008.
Miller, Raymond C. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008)After giving recognition to the key contributors to the success of the Association for Integrative Studies over the last 30 years, the speaker applies the three perspectives of his field, international political economy, ... -
Developing an Integrated Arts and Media Studies Curriculum: One Model
Watson, Ian (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008)The arts and media studies have received less attention than other disciplines by advocates of integrative pedagogy and learning. This paper examines one attempt to correct this oversight--the development of an integrated ... -
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 ... -
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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 Methods in Water Resources
Cosens, Barbara; Fiedler, Fritz; Boll, Jan; Higgins, Lorie; Johnson, Brian Kennedy; Strand, Eva; Wilson, Patrick; Laflin, Maureen (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2011)In the face of a myriad of complex water resource issues, traditional disciplinary separation is ineffective in developing approaches to promote a sustainable water future. As part of a new ... -
Something Essential about Interdisciplinary Thinking
Dreyfuss, Simeon (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2011)The integrative thinking essential to interdisciplinary inquiry requires not only critical reflection concerning the points of convergence and dissonance between disciplinary insights, but also something more personal and ... -
The Emergence of Interdisciplinarity From Epistemological Thought
Welch IV, James (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2011)Interdisciplinary studies has positioned itself as an innovative approach to comprehending, navigating, and transforming knowledge. The emphasis in recent scholarship upon complex systems and integration of insights from ... -
The Intertwined History of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Education and the Association for Integrative Studies: An Insider's View
Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008)This article separately chronicles the history of the Association for Integrative Studies and the history of interdisciplinary undergraduate education in the United States from the 1960s through the first decade of the ... -
Using Systems Thinking to Improve Interdisciplinary Learning Outcomes: Reflections on a Pilot Study in Land Economics
Mathews, Leah Greden; Jones, Andrew (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008)Systems thinking is an inquiry-based method of learning that uses the technique of perspective-taking, fosters holistic thinking, and engages in belief-testing. This paper describes a pilot study in an undergraduate Land ...