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Abbott, William; Nantz, Kathryn A. – Issues in Integrative 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 disciplines of history and economics. In the process we not only compare the advantages and disadvantages of each format but…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Integrated Activities, History Instruction, Economics Education
Leonard, Jeannie Brown – Issues in Integrative 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 integrative learning. This participant-shaped understanding of integrative learning was broad and reflected a continuum of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Style, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Gardner, Susan K. – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2011
Interdisciplinarity has become a growing emphasis in the U.S. higher education and the prevalence of interdisciplinary doctoral programs is one indicator of such growth. Despite this growth, the experiences of individuals within interdisciplinary doctoral programs have been largely unexamined in the literature. This paper examines a self-designed…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Doctoral Programs, Success, Student Experience
Baillat, Gilles; Niclot, Daniel – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
Interdisciplinary processes are being developed for a better present and future in primary and secondary education teaching in France. Over the past few years, the education authorities have increased incentives to open the subjects for one another and created new teaching-learning programs for interdisciplinary purposes. In spite of the obvious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Rodríguez, José Gregorio; Blasco, Carlos Miñana – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article examines education policy on curricular integration and interdisciplinary practices in primary and secondary education (K-11) in Colombia. It presents an overview of institutional and teachers' discourses and practices concerning this subject, based on empirical work that was done in Bogotá. Finally, it presents a cooperative research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Local Issues, Educational Policy
Lenoir, Yves; Hasni, Abelkrim – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article presents a portrait of interdisciplinarity in the Quebec school system. Following a contextual overview of this system, including its sociohistorical evolution and current organization in order to define the problem of interdisciplinarity, a second section, beginning with a clarification of terms related to interdisciplinarity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Implementation, Barriers