Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies Volume 30 (2012)
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Interdisciplinary Studies and the Question of Being
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)The question of being adds another dimension to interdisciplinary theory and practice. The interdisciplinary approach to complex problems requires engaging with multiple perspectives from various disciplines, schools of ... -
Building Students' Integrative Thinking Capacities: A Case Study in Economics and History
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)Having engaged in interdisciplinary team-teaching in both the two-course cluster format and the single course format, we intend to show how we helped students recognize and find their own integrative insights between the ... -
Interdisciplinary Studies and the Real World: A Practical Rationale for and Guide to Postgraduation Evaluation and Assessment
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)This article is an outgrowth of the evaluation and assessment process in a large interdisciplinary studies (IDS) program at West Virginia University. We argue for the importance of collecting and assessing quantitative and ... -
Integrative Learning: A Grounded Theory
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)This article reports the findings from a study of undergraduate students in an academic program focused on integrative learning rather than interdisciplinarity. One aspect of this study included how students defined ... -
Interdisciplines and Interdisciplinarity: Political Psychology and Psychohistory Compared
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)Interdisciplines are specialties that connect ideas, methods, and findings from existing disciplines. Political psychology and psychohistory are interdisciplines which should have much in common, but even where they clearly ... -
Editors' Introduction
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The Circulation of Knowledge as an Interdisciplinary Process: Travelling Concepts, Analogies, and Metaphor
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2012)In our society in which communication is so wide-ranging and rapid we are witnessing a significant increase in the pace at which knowledge is produced and disseminated. Bodies of knowledge intersect as they cross borders ...