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Marcus Bussey – International Dialogues on Education, 2022
This essay explores the broader implications for education of the COVID-19 pandemic. It asks: What can COVID teach us? The case is made that COVID is inviting us to consider a relational universe, and what a pedagogy of presence would look like. It takes a futures perspective and is therefore, unabashedly speculative. It draws on the author's many…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Practices, Responses
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Welch, James, IV – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018
This article examines the main ideas presented in Newell's groundbreaking article, published in "Issues in Integrative Studies" in 2001, "A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies": that complexity is a precondition for interdisciplinary research, that interdisciplinary research utilizes disciplinary perspectives, and that…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Perspective Taking, Systems Approach, Intellectual Disciplines
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Downes, Paul; Anderson, Jim; Nairz-Wirth, Erna – European Journal of Education, 2018
Transition requires a multidimensional, interdisciplinary approach for its re-conceptualisation to bring to the fore systemic and power related concerns affecting marginalised and vulnerable groups. This concluding article examines the special issue articles through a range of perspectives. These include examining transitions through a…
Descriptors: Change, Interdisciplinary Approach, Disadvantaged, Hermeneutics
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Simpson, Melanie Rae – Advances in Physiology Education, 2016
As a newcomer, the philosophical basis of systems biology seems intuitive and appealing, the underlying philosophy being that the whole of a living system cannot be completely understood by the study of its individual parts. Yet answers to the questions "What is systems biology?" and "What constitutes a systems biology approach in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Biology, Systems Approach, Physiology
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Smith, John A. – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article argues that Education Studies needs to develop its existing interdisciplinarity understanding of structures and agencies by giving greater attention to the modern process theories of self-organisation in the physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, sometimes given the umbrella term "complexity theory". The…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Systems Approach, Social Theories, Evolution
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Krasny, Marianne E.; Tidball, Keith G. – Environmental Education Research, 2009
A growing body of literature on community gardening, watershed restoration, and similar "civic ecology" practices suggests avenues for integrating social and ecological outcomes in urban natural resources management. In this paper, we argue that an environmental education programme in which learning is situated in civic ecology practices…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Urban Education, Citizenship Education, Educational Objectives
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Koss, Denise – Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1986
Home economists can use their systems approach and multidisciplinary orientation in the promotion and implementation of prevention. Prevention is defined as anticipatory action to stop or reduce the possibility of an undesirable event from happening. (SK)
Descriptors: Home Economics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Prevention, Safety Education
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Koff, Nancy Alexander; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1994
Interdisciplinary teams are loosely coupled (systems in which elements are weakly, infrequently, or informally linked). Applying loosely coupled systems theory to team training increases its effectiveness, because learning activities may be disjointed and learning goals may diverge. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Geriatrics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Systems Approach
Parker, Tommie – 1983
The paper traces the evolution of psychiatric care for children from an intrapsychic orientation to a new conceptual perspective provided by systems theory and the accompanying relational formulation of conflict. The interdisciplinary process prevents a challenge to professionals' collaboration and respect for other fields and mandates critical…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Emotional Problems, Ethics, Family Counseling
Salisbury, David F. – Educational Technology, 1989
Describes basic concepts in the field of general systems theory (GST) and explains the relationship between instructional systems design (ISD) and GST. Benefits of integrating GST into the curriculum of ISD graduate programs are discussed, and a short bibliography on GST is included. (LRW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Instructional Design
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Gottlieb, Gilbert – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Discusses the history of the hierarchical epigenetic systems view as applied to human development and offers examples of its implementation. Notes the agreement by many authors that the multilevel systems view is the right model for developmental psychology in both human and animal studies. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Developmental Psychology
Thompson, Patricia J. – 1982
This paper presents a model and conceptual framework for textbook research. The model will help scholars from a variety of disciplines approach textbook research from a common theoretical grounding and later compare and synthesize their findings using agreed-upon categories and a shared vocabulary. The author first describes two rudimentary models…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Hull, Daniel M. – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1990
The director of the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) suggests areas in a technical curriculum that could be improved using an interdisciplinary approach: (1) systems; (2) the electromechanical core; (3) the mathematics/science base; (4) computers; and (5) interpersonal/communication skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Computers, Core Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Turvey, M. T.; Fitzpatrick, Paula – Child Development, 1993
After reviewing recent contributions to the field of motor development, suggests a pattern formation or dynamics approach to child development as an alternative to the conventional approaches emphasizing maturation (nativist), specific learning experiences (empiricist), cognitive stages (Piagetian), and strategies of encoding and retrieval…
Descriptors: Child Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Motor Development, Motor Reactions
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Ross, Robert F.; Emmert, Philip – ACA Bulletin, 1990
Argues for a multifocused divisional unit versus the traditional single discipline communication department for institutions that are generally small (6 to 10 thousand students) and where enrollments overall have leveled off for both the institution and department. (KEH)
Descriptors: College Administration, Curriculum Design, Departments, Enrollment
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