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Tan, Michael – Learning: Research and Practice, 2018
The STEM movement is a recent phenomenon receiving worldwide attention as the darling educational project for school systems and research centres. This interest has no doubt been fuelled by economic rationales of the supposed necessity of STEM for continued material wealth, and the claims that the future will require a different sort of expertise…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Context Effect, Cultural Influences
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Wang, Yinying – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Despite abundant data and increasing data availability brought by technological advances, there has been very limited education policy studies that have capitalized on big data--characterized by large volume, wide variety, and high velocity. Drawing on the recent progress of using big data in public policy and computational social science…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Research, Misconceptions, Barriers
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Machalek, Richard; Martin, Michael W. – Teaching Sociology, 2010
As the authors stated early in their article (Machalek and Martin 2010), evolutionary ideas have been gaining traction in the work of a growing number of sociologists in recent years. Much of their thinking derives from work inspired by sociobiology. However, many sociologists are critical of and unreceptive to incorporating evolutionary biology…
Descriptors: Sociology, Biology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Academic Discourse
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Sauterer, Roger – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2000
Explains astrobiology and indicates the possibility of life on other planets and the interest of humankind in this possibility. Defines topics open to public misconception and their primary reinforcements by television shows. Expresses the need for students to learn the connections between different science majors. (YDS)
Descriptors: Astronomy, Biology, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Regnier, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Fascination with pedagogical technique has denigrated the intellectual life of K-12 educators and furthered the proliferation of "interdisciplinary" instructional approaches that blur important distinctions among disciplines. An atmosphere that values technique over substance tends to drive out or marginalize educators who enjoy reading and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
Woody, Robert – Teaching Music, 2004
Musicians hold diverse opinions about the value of scientific inquiry in their field. Although some see music-making as a human behavior that can be studied from, say, a psychological perspective, others maintain that music's subjective and almost magical qualities defy scientific explanation. Even within the field of music education there seems…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Research, Researchers, Musicians
Polland, Mark – 1994
This paper examines the nature and evaluation of creative behavior, tracing the origins of creativity research and developing an interdisciplinary framework for such research. The first part of the paper is devoted to identifying the nature of some common misconceptions regarding the nature and evaluation of creative behaviors, and tracing their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Creativity Research