Browsing by Author "Wentworth, Jay"
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A Role for Formalisms in Integrative Studies
Warfield, John N.; Warfield, Rosamond (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1999)The increasing importance of integrative studies in higher education makes it more vital to rethink integrative studies from the perspective of reaching maximum benefit. In rethinking integrative studies, it is appropriate ... -
A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies
Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001)"Interdisciplinarity is necessitated by complexity, specifically by the structure and behavior of complex systems. The nature of complex systems provides a rationale for interdisciplinary study. An examination of complex ... -
Another Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies
Mackey, J. Linn (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001)"Newell’s “A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies” is criticized for its undefined and inadequate borrowing of the term nonlinear from chaos theory and the repeated use of this term as a deus ex machina to explain emergent ... -
Applying More Integrative Potentials for IDS Program Planning and Development
Payne, Steve (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001)"The continuing development and success of IDS (Interdisciplinary Studies) programs in higher education depend on the quality of processes associated with their planning, implementation, and review. Underlying and often ... -
Assessment Outcomes and Forays in Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development
McDonald, Michael R.; Tolley, S. Gregory (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)An interdisciplinary course titled Issues in Ecology and Environment was developed and taught by an anthropologist and an oceanographer at Florida Gulf Coast University beginning spring 1998. Focusing on cognate interdisciplinary ... -
Contending with Complexity: A Response to William H. Newell's "A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies"
Bailis, Stanley (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001)"Newell has mounted a large, interesting, and deeply insistent argument to the effect that complexity theory should be adopted as both a rationale for interdisciplinary studies and a guide for its instructional, investigative, ... -
Educational Connoisseurship, Criticism, and the Assessment of Integrative Studies
Vars, Gordon F. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)How we might help students “synthesize” or “integrate” and then assess the process has continued to perplexed educators. This paper examines how “educational connoisseurship” and “educational criticism,” as described by ... -
How to Do Interdisciplinarity: Integrating the Debate
Szostak, Rick (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)This paper develops a twelve-step process for interdisciplinary research. While individual researchers cannot be expected to follow all of these steps in every research project, the process alerts them to the dangers of ... -
Integrative Praxes: Learning from Mulitple Knowledge Formations
Carp, Richard M. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001)After adopting and extending the “test of truth as effective action” that Newell proposes in “A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies,” this article proposes “living well” as the goal of knowledge processes. With this in ... -
Interdisciplinarity and the Prospect of Complexity: The Tests of Theory
Klein, Julie Thompson (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001)"William Newell’s theory of interdisciplinary studies is a timely proposal since complexity is a keyword in contemporary descriptions of interdisciplinarity. Like any other theory, it is subject to a series of questions: ... -
Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: A Constant Challenge to the Sciences
Kotter, Rudolf; Balsiger, Philipp W. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1999)The following text will present an outlook on some new forms of supradisciplinary collaboration where traditional disciplinary bounderies are crossed. It will be shown (a) that the decision as to which form of supradisciplinary ... -
Interdisciplinarity as Self and Subject: Metaphor and Transformation
Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M.; Gillman, Laura; Allen, Katherine R. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)This paper is based on our experience of team teaching an interdisciplinary course on multicultural families. We propose a theoretical model to demonstrate collaborative teaching that trasverses multiple disciplines. The ... -
Interdisciplinary Program Assessment
Stowe, Donald E.; Eder, Douglas J. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)Interdisciplinary studies programs and the assessment movement are two parallel educational paradigms, both of which are maturing at a pace that is noticeably deliberate. Idealistic in inception, they are simple in concept, ... -
Intermediation: Arts' Contribution to General Integrative Theory
Carp, Richard M. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1999)Intermediation approaches integration via medium, as does interdisciplinarity via field/content, while both involve concerns of method/ology. "Media" are distinguished by the perceptual acts required for their constitution ... -
Intuition and Interdisciplinarity: A Reply to Mackey
Szostak, Rick (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002) -
"Navigating the Disciplinary Fault Lines" in Science and in the Classroom: Undergraduate Neuroscience Classroom in Mind, Brain and Behavior at Harvard
Nikitina, Svetlana (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)This paper explores the key elements of success in the interdisciplinary teaching of neuroscience, using the example of two undergraduate seminars offered by the Mind, Brain, and Behavior (MBB) program at Harvard University. ... -
Putting Social Structure in Its Place Schematically
Szostak, Rick (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001)I apply the schema I developed in a recent Issues in Integrative Studies (IIS) paper (consisting of a hierarchically organized list of the phenomena of interest to human scientists, and the causal links or influences among ... -
Reply to the Respondents to "A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies"
Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2001) -
Response to the Keynote Address by Dr. Allen Hammond, "Globalization That Works for Everyone: What Would It Look Like?"
Miller, Raymond C. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002) -
Rules Are Not the Way to Do Interdisciplinarity: A Response to Szostak
Mackey, J. Linn (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)An alternative view is offered to Szostak’s (2000) multi-step guide to doing interdisciplinary research. Interdisciplinarity is presented as an intuitive process instead of Szostak’s step- or rule-based process. To support ...