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• AIS Officers and Board Members, 2014 

  Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

• Institutional Members, 2014 

  Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

• Interdisciplinary Common Ground: Techniques and Attentional Processes 

  Arvidson, P. Sven (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, ...

• Convergent Evolution in the Interest of Integrative Problem Solving: Connecting the Policy Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies 

  Wallace, Richard L.; Clark, Susan G. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

  The contemporary fields of interdisciplinary studies and the policy sciences have evolved over similar intellectual paths and timelines, beginning in the early 20th century. Both have their roots in professional efforts—within ...

• Professional Identity and Participation in Interprofessional Community Collaboration 

  Bayne-Smith, Marcia; Mizrahi, Terry; Korazim-Kőrösy, Yossi; Garcia, Martha (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

  Collaboration is now frequently required among representatives of myriad disciplines to intervene more effectively in complex community and public health problems. A fundamental tenet of collaboration across professions ...

• Interdisciplinarity, Qualitative Research, and the Complex Phenomenon: Toward an Integrative Approach to Intercultural Research 

  Ryan, Phillip; Kurtz, Jill S.; Carter, Deanne; Pester, Danielle (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

  This article is a collaboration by the lead faculty member in a Masters program in Intercultural Studies and students who completed the program under his aegis. This article presents the program’s approach to its research ...

• Interdisciplinary Learning Works: The Results of a Comprehensive Assessment of Students and Student Learning Outcomes in an Integrative Learning Community 

  Carmichael, Tami (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

  This article describes the development, implementation, and results of an extensive assessment of students and student learning outcomes in an interdisciplinary, integrative learning community. This assessment project ...

• The Transformation from Multidisciplinarity to Interdisciplinarity: A Case Study of a Course Involving the Status of Arab Citizens of Israel 

  Tayler, Marilyn R. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

  The author demonstrates that entry-level students can achieve a more comprehensive understanding of complex problems through an explicitly interdisciplinary approach than through a merely multidisciplinary approach, using ...

• Biting Into the Yellow Pepper: The Development of the Interdisciplinary Learner 

  Haynes, Carolyn (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

  Print version of the address delivered by Carolyn Haynes, a keynote speaker at the 35th annual conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, hosted by Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from November 7 to 10 ...

• Editors' Introduction 

  Gagnon, Pauline; Schulz, Gretchen (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014)

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• The Role of Intuition in Interdisciplinary Insight 

  Welch IV, James (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)

  Intuition is a hotly debated topic in interdisciplinary scholarship, at the core of the conflict between the need for rigor as opposed to open-mindedness within interdisciplinary studies. To thoroughly investigate this ...

• 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, ...

• The Integrated Self Crosses Borders Daily: Inviting the Mystical Realism of the Integrated Scholar 

  De la Garza, Sarah "Amira" (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)

  This call to self reflection arising out of the keynote presentation invites readers to encounter and participate in the practice of the integrated scholar--a path across borders and boundaries often considered "outside" ...

• Administering Interdisciplinary and Innovative Programs: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Arizona International College 

  Burkhardt, Paul (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)

• Uncertain Paths for Interdisciplinary Programs and Their Faculties: Critical Stakes to Claim 

  Augsburg, Tanya (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)

  The following response to Henry (2005a) identifies other recent and current challenges to undergraduate interdisciplinary studies programs and their faculties. These challenges can include their administrative and physical ...

• 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 ...

• Symbolic Variety and Cultural Integration, AIS National Conference Keynote Address, October 6, 2006 

  Dupre, Louis (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)

  A unique combination of historical and cultural circumstances has contributed to two profound phenomena arising out of the early modern age: the emergence of cultural fragmentation and the revolutionary transition in ...

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