Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies Volume 20 (2002)
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Rules Are Not the Way to Do Interdisciplinarity: A Response to Szostak
(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 ... -
Response to the Keynote Address by Dr. Allen Hammond, "Globalization That Works for Everyone: What Would It Look Like?"
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Interdisciplinarity as Self and Subject: Metaphor and Transformation
(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
(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, ... -
"Navigating the Disciplinary Fault Lines" in Science and in the Classroom: Undergraduate Neuroscience Classroom in Mind, Brain and Behavior at Harvard
(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. ... -
How to Do Interdisciplinarity: Integrating the Debate
(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 ... -
Educational Connoisseurship, Criticism, and the Assessment of Integrative Studies
(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 ... -
Intuition and Interdisciplinarity: A Reply to Mackey
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Assessment Outcomes and Forays in Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development
(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 ... -
Strategies for Using Interdisciplinary Resources Across K-16
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)Across the K-16 system of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, the need for interdisciplinary resources is widespread. Resources are dispersed, however, across disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and professional ...