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Rivera, Julio; Groleau, Tom – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, the dissolution of the silos between geography and business faculty to form a teaching partnership with a common set of questions and goals and how that partnership changed their academic perspectives will be explored. Faculty deepened the challenges for students, re-thought pedagogical models, and re-thought grading and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Business Administration Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Stokes, Alison; Harmer, Nichola – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
Active, student-centered pedagogies such as project-based learning (PjBL) can offer significant potential for engaging undergraduates with complex sustainability issues. Driven by institution-wide curriculum changes and informed by educational theories and evidence from previous studies, a trial PjBL activity was designed and delivered on three…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction
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Kricsfalusy, Vladimir; George, Colleen; Reed, Maureen G. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Improving student competencies to address sustainability challenges has been a subject of significant debate in higher education. Problem- and project-based learning have been widely celebrated as course models that support the development of sustainability competencies. This paper describes a course developed for a professional Master's program…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects, Environmental Education
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Piper, Jon K.; Krehbiel, Dwight – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2015
To attract and retain more academically qualified students to science and mathematics, we developed a merit-based scholarship program for incoming students with STEM interests. Scholarship recipients participate for the first two years in an interdisciplinary learning community and declare a STEM major by the sophomore year. STEM Learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Seminars
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Czajkowski, Katrine G. – English Journal, 1997
Describes the author's experiences teaching interdisciplinary English in three different configurations: one-woman English/social studies integration; one-woman English/mathematics integration; and two-women English/math/social studies integration. Discusses activities, successes, and failures of each, and shows how all three contribute to her…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hahn, Carole L., Ed. – 1979
The handbook provides lessons in career education which may be infused into the social studies curriculum in grades K-12. Preceding the lessons, the document describes how the four components of the National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines relate to career education. These components are knowledge, abilities, valuing, and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Burtin, Orville Vernon – History Teacher, 1979
Describes an undergraduate course, "An Interdisciplinary Approach to American Social History." For projects, students analyze census returns by means of computer and present papers to other students and faculty. (KC)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education, History Instruction
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Freeman, Andrew – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1980
Presented are examples of the use of Student Research Projects to enable math educators to accomplish four tasks: (1) to increase the interdisciplinary nature of their course, (2) to involve the community more in education of students, (3) to encourage student participation in the solving of real life problems, and (4) to assist students in coping…
Descriptors: Business Education, English Curriculum, English Instruction, English Teacher Education
Stocking, Vicki B.; Cutforth, Nick – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2006
In community-based research (CBR), faculty, students, and community partners collaborate on research projects. This emerging pedagogy presents numerous challenges to instructors teaching CBR courses, including: finding a disciplinary connection, building CBR into the curriculum, ensuring student readiness, and structuring the CBR experience…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Community Involvement, Research Projects, Student Projects
Rebelsky, Freda – 1972
This project is a prototype study which investigates the interaction of graduate students from different disciplinary backgrounds and different educational institutions in exploring social and public policy issues related to children. The results and evaluation of the research program are presented in this document. Divided into three teams, the…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Care, Child Development, Educational Research
Hawke, Sharryl – 1975
An 11th-grade interdisciplinary course combining English and American history examines United States history from the perspective of nine topics, rather than through the traditional, chronological-survey approach. Discovery learning and independent research are the focus of course method. At the start of the course, students are given nine…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, English, Gifted, Grade 11