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Download full textLaursen, Bethany; O'Rourke, Michael – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019
Integration is crucial to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work and it therefore deserves perennial attention by scholars and practitioners of such work. Few have thought so carefully, deeply, and tenaciously about integration as Julie Thompson Klein. In this article, we recount the development of Klein's thinking on integration, from her…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Theories, Learning Theories, Input Output Analysis
Klein, Julie Thompson – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021
Prompted by William Newell's 2013 call for the Association of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) to consider whether to rethink its mission in light of other organizations' interests, this article begins by reflecting on similarities and differences among five of the founding organizations of a recently formed Global Alliance for Inter- and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Curriculum
Henry, Stuart – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018
Accepting Newell's invitation to develop his interdisciplinary theory to address new developments, I first consider Newell's complex systems theory of interdisciplinarity. I then review developments of his theory before critiquing its merits and deficiencies. This critique is informed by recent critical realists' works that point to deficiencies…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Epistemology, Criticism, Constructivism (Learning)
Newell, William H.; Arvidson, P. Sven – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018
This article features a conversation on the occasion of a May 2018 "Festschrift" in "Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies" to honor the work of William Newell, between Newell and P. Sven Arvidson. William Newell is Emeritus Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University, where he taught interdisciplinary courses full…
Descriptors: Integrity, Interdisciplinary Approach, Liberal Arts, Humanities
Direct linkArvidson, P. Sven – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2015
One reason scholars and students are attracted to interdisciplinary studies and its research process is because doing good work in the field requires values, traits and skills that are virtuous rather than vicious. This study examines how successful interdisciplinary research is intrinsically related to the human capacity for reverence in the face…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Theories, Perspective Taking, Moral Values
Newell, William H. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013
This chronological overview of the development of interdisciplinary theory starts with the pre-cursors of theory: the development and elaboration of the definition of interdisciplinary studies, influential but problematic images of interdisciplinary studies proposed by Donald Campbell and Erich Jantsch, and best practices in interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Theories, Educational Development, Definitions
