Starting with Worldviews: A Five-Step Preparatory Approach to Integrative Interdisciplinary Learning

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dc.contributorAugsburg, Tanya
dc.contributorChitewere, Tendai
dc.contributor.editorPauline Gagnon
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-15T18:10:13Z
dc.date.available2017-03-15T18:10:13Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractIn this article we propose a five-step sequenced approach to integrative interdisciplinary learning in undergraduate gateway courses. Drawing from the literature of interdisciplinarity, transformative learning theory, and theories of reflective learning, we utilize a sequence of five steps early in our respective undergraduate gateway courses to foster preliminary lessons crucial for integrative interdisciplinary learning. Collectively, these steps help students recognize their own worldviews even as they will eventually understand tnad value the multiple disciplinary perspectives to be integrated in interdisciplinary work.  The five steps discussed in this article are initial community-building activities, a class viewing of a segment from The Muppet Show featuring Harry Belafonte, a combination of class and small group discussion, an intellectual autobiography assignment, and our respective adaptations of Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoirs.
dc.identifier.citationAugsburg, Tanya, and Tendai Chitewere. "Starting with Worldviews: A Five-Step Preparatory Approach to Integrative Interdisciplinary Learning." Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 31 (2013): 174-191.
dc.identifier.issn1081-4760
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10323/4475
dc.publisherAssociation for Interdisciplinary Studies
dc.relation.ispartofIssues in Interdisciplinary Studies
dc.subjectIntegrative interdisciplinary learningen_US
dc.subjectTransformative learningen_US
dc.subjectWorldviewsen_US
dc.subjectCommunitiesen_US
dc.titleStarting with Worldviews: A Five-Step Preparatory Approach to Integrative Interdisciplinary Learning

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