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Fuchsman, Ken – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2012
Interdisciplines are specialties that connect ideas, methods, and findings from existing disciplines. Political psychology and psychohistory are interdisciplines which should have much in common, but even where they clearly intersect, their approaches usually diverge. Part of the reason for their dissimilarity lies in what each takes and rejects…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Political Science, Psychology, History
Welch, James, IV – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2011
Interdisciplinary studies has positioned itself as an innovative approach to comprehending, navigating, and transforming knowledge. The emphasis in recent scholarship upon complex systems and integration of insights from disciplinary perspectives mark decisive progress toward the development of a cohesive theory of interdisciplinarity. Such a…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Epistemology, Educational Philosophy, Phenomenology
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
Bouillier-Oudot, Marie-Hélène – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
Agricultural education very early on tested a generalized mandate of modular interdisciplinary education. In this regard, it constitutes an interesting medium for observing the conditions required for developing interdisciplinarity in an academic context. Based on a historical approach, this text shows how a series of experiments led to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Experiments
Boix Mansilla, Veronica; Lenoir, Yves – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article examines the historical evolution of the concepts of interdisciplinarity and integration in American education. We first focus on United States education in the 20th century to review the rationales for integrated and interdisciplinary primary and secondary education. We place such rationales in the context of the larger purposes…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Concept Formation, Educational Development, Educational History
Clausen, Kurt W.; Drake, Susan M. – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
In Canada, the province of Ontario has had a rather turbulent relationship with interdisciplinarity as it has tried to implement this practice into the public school system. Specifically, the provincial government has repeatedly attempted to introduce such reforms as integrated units, harmonized objectives, and open-concept, student-centered pods,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Practices, Educational Change
Segovia, Isidoro; Lupiáñez, Jose Luis; Molina, Marta; González, Francisco; Miñán, Antonio; Real, Irene – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article provides an overview of the role that interdisciplinarity plays in the Spanish education system. With this aim, we first describe the main conception of the term "interdisciplinarity" in texts written in Spanish, including other terms that have similar meaning. Then we review the role of interdisciplinarity in the Spanish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Concept Formation, Role Perception
Long, Janette; Moran, Wendy; Harris, Joanne – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article explores the history and development of interdisciplinarity within the Australian context. Conditions and circumstances for the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches are explored with discussion identifying how these approaches impact and shape national curriculum, teachers' practice and pedagogy. Policies, proposals, and debate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Development, Educational History
Ghisla, Gianni; Bausch, Luca; Bonoli, Lorenzo – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
Multi- and interdisciplinary education is a major postulate in the Swiss school system and has considerable weight in educational programs and learning objectives, both in compulsory school and at the upper secondary school level. However, materializing this postulate still poses problems at the political and institutional level, where the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Definitions, Educational Practices
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