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Download full textWelch, 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
Laursen, Bethany K. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018
This article aims to convince readers of the value of intersecting the scholarship of interdisciplinarity with the field of argumentation studies. The interdisciplinarity literature has not much engaged with the vehicle that carries interdisciplinary learning, languages, and locutions: the argument. On the argumentation studies side, despite the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Persuasive Discourse, Inferences, Pattern Recognition
Kjellberg, Paul; O'Rourke, Michael; O'Connor-Gómez, Doreen – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018
Researchers typically embark on interdisciplinarity after the acquisition of disciplinary expertise. This article explores the possibility of teaching interdiciplinarity to undergraduate students who have not yet mastered or are in the process of mastering a discipline or disciplines. It focuses on junior-year students in the Whittier Scholars…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Scholarship
Arvidson, P. Sven – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2016
There are significant parallels between interdisciplinarity and phenomenology. Interdisciplinary conscious processes involve identifying relevant disciplines, evaluating each disciplinary insight, and creating common ground. In an analogous way, phenomenology involves conscious processes of epoché, reduction, and eidetic variation. Each stresses…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research, Phenomenology, Cognitive Processes
Carmichael, Tami S. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018
As William Newell observed, in order to obtain an excellent undergraduate education, it is necessary for students to move between disciplinary and interdisciplinary educational experiences; additionally, he claims it is essential that "students also…shuttle back and forth between the classroom and the outside world" (Newell, 2010, p.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Perspective Taking, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Development
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
