Browsing Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies Volume 24 (2006) by Issue Date
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Administering Interdisciplinary and Innovative Programs: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Arizona International College
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Uncertain Paths for Interdisciplinary Programs and Their Faculties: Critical Stakes to Claim
(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
(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 ... -
Interdisciplinary Integration by Undergraduates
(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 ... -
Symbolic Variety and Cultural Integration, AIS National Conference Keynote Address, October 6, 2006
(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 ... -
Whither Interdisciplinarity
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)This essay comments on Stuart Henry's important contribution to our thinking about the administration of interdisciplinary programs. Though I quibble with a few of the arguments he makes in the last volume of Issues, I ... -
Interdisciplinary Integration in Professional Education: Tools and Analysis from Cultural Historical Activity Theory
(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
(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. ...