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Guanghui Qian; Fei Qiu; Jie He; Lu Zhang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Promoting interdisciplinary development is an inevitable requirement for the advancement of science and education, as well as an internal need for disciplinary growth and a necessary choice for building world-class universities. In this paper, high-quality academic outputs from China's first-class comprehensive universities are used as a data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Natural Sciences
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Brenna L. Decker – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2025
In Spring of 2023, I developed a special topics course titled "Collection Material Handling" to introduce students to museum management using Utah State University collections on the Logan, UT campus. The cross-listed upper-level course brought 16 USU students together from two disciplines: anthropology and natural sciences. The…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Museums, Advanced Courses, Anthropology
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Hyesun You; Minju Hong – Research in Science Education, 2024
Natural phenomena and scientific issues are intrinsically interdisciplinary. Students need to study a variety of academic disciplines in the natural sciences to explain a phenomenon or its related problems. Our goal in the current study was to examine the epistemological foundation of students' interdisciplinary understanding of carbon cycling…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Students, Science Education, Knowledge Level
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Feser, Markus Sebastian; Michalik, Kerstin – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
In German primary schools, natural sciences and social studies are learned and taught in an integrative manner within a subject called Sachunterricht. To teach Sachunterricht in a high-quality manner, it is reasonable to assume that primary school teachers themselves require-- among other things, such as knowledge about pedagogy, teaching…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Interests
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Jennifer Sweeney Tookes; Lissa M. Leege – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
As a "wicked problem," climate change requires interdisciplinary understanding and collaboration in order to prepare future leaders to develop solutions. To this end, as an ecologist and an anthropologist at a mid-sized university in the southeastern U.S., we designed a pair of interdisciplinary, research-intensive courses for first-year…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Climate, Environmental Education, Research Training
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Bonney, Kevin M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2020
Liberal arts programs encompass a range of academic disciplines, and their effectiveness relies not only on what these disciplines are, but also on how they are integrated. The natural sciences are one important component of liberal arts programs that may be difficult to assimilate with the rest of the curriculum. In this paper, the topic of…
Descriptors: Diseases, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines
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Hubbard, Amelia R.; Monnig, Laurel A. – Science & Education, 2020
Exposure to information about genetics is at an all-time high, while a full understanding of the biocultural complexity of human difference is low. This paper demonstrates the value of an "anthropological approach" to enhance genetics education in biology, anthropology, and other related disciplines, when teaching about human differences…
Descriptors: Anthropology, College Science, Science Instruction, Genetics
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Mork, Sonja M.; Henriksen, Ellen K.; Haug, Berit S.; Jorde, Doris; Frøyland, Merethe – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Science teacher educators (STEs) have key roles in the educational system through their preparation of pre- and in-service science teachers and in implementing future-oriented policy reforms. Given the complexity and importance of their role, what types of knowledge do STEs need? STEs come from a range of backgrounds and there are few systematic…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Educators, Critical Thinking, Science Instruction
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Koch, Franziska D.; Dirsch-Weigand, Andrea; Awolin, Malte; Pinkelman, Rebecca J.; Hampe, Manfred J. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
In order to increase student commitment from the beginning of students' university careers, the Technische Universität Darmstadt has introduced interdisciplinary study projects involving first-year students from the engineering, natural, social and history, economics and/or human sciences departments. The didactic concept includes sophisticated…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects
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deLusé, Stephanie R. – Honors in Practice, 2014
The evolution of The Human Event, a course sequence at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, provides a case study of using a program's history to understand its present and improve its future. While Barrett is situated at a public university with 76,000 students, and is now a large college in itself with 4,803 honors students,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, College Freshmen, Seminars, Sequential Approach
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Lamanauskas, Vincentas, Ed. – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2021
These proceedings contain papers of the 4th International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2021) held in Šiauliai, Lithuania, June 21-22, 2021. This symposium was organized by the Scientific Methodical Center "Scientia Educologica" in cooperation with Scientia Socialis, Ltd. Lithuania. The proceedings are…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Worksheets, Mathematics Education
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Dostilio, Lina D.; Conti, Norman; Kronk, Rebecca; Weideman, Yvonne L.; Woodley, Sarah K.; Trun, Nancy – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2013
This article presents three cases of community-engaged, or "public," scholarship across diverse disciplines (social science, natural science, and health science) in which the rigid boundaries of what has been conceived as traditional service-learning have been blurred. The innovations represented within these cases explicitly address…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Scholarship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Sciences
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Arapaki, Xenia; Koliopoulos, Dimitris – Science & Education, 2011
The need for a convergence of the visual arts and the natural sciences within the framework of both formal (schools, universities) and non-formal education (museum) at the level of dissemination and popularization of this knowledge is something that has preoccupied the communities of artists, scientists and educators. In the present work we aim to…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Natural Sciences, Educational History, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Gómez Puente, Sonia M.; van Eijck, Michiel; Jochems, Wim – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
Design-based learning (DBL) is an educational approach grounded in the processes of inquiry and reasoning towards generating innovative artifacts, systems and solutions. The approach is well characterized in the context of learning natural sciences in secondary education. Less is known, however, of its characteristics in the context of higher…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Learning Strategies, Design, Natural Sciences
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Wingert, Jason R.; Wasileski, Sally A.; Peterson, Karin; Mathews, Leah Greden; Lanou, Amy Joy; Clarke, David – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
This article offers food for thought on a strategy used by seven faculty to enhance students' integrative learning by offering cross-course, cross-disciplinary projects and shared activities focused on food. The faculty teach a cluster of ten courses in natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities that address food themes.…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Sciences, Health Education
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