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Tytler, Russell; Prain, Vaughan – Teaching Science, 2022
Despite longstanding calls to integrate school science and mathematics, concerns remain about how to achieve high-quality learning in both subjects. In reporting on a teaching approach that aimed to achieve this outcome, the authors focus particularly on the teacher's role. The Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science project (IMS), an Australian…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Teaching Methods
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Gentes, Annie; Renon, Anne-Lyse; Bobroff, Julien – Design and Technology Education, 2017
This paper analyzes the introduction of fundamental physics in design education as a pedagogical method that trains designers to create with the un-known. It studies how three workshops offered design students to work on: superconductivity in 2011, quantum physics in 2013 and light and optics in 2014. The authors observe that introducing physics…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Physics, Design, Teaching Methods
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Bond, Candis E. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2017
In this essay, the author will discuss background on the topic of street harassment within the context of the United States, the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of her course design, and outcomes from the class. She will also share ideas for modifying and improving the course. Her syllabus and assignments were highly experimental, since…
Descriptors: College Students, Sexual Harassment, Teaching Models, Teaching Methods
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Govan, Michelle – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2016
The field of digital forensics requires a multidisciplinary understanding of a range of diverse subjects, but is interdisciplinary (in using principles, techniques and theories from other disciplines) encompassing both computer and forensic science. This requires that practitioners have a deep technical knowledge and understanding, but that they…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Criminology, Crime, Electronic Learning
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Macedo, Joseli – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2017
Study abroad programs offer a unique opportunity to evaluate pedagogic models. The role of studios in design and planning pedagogy has been examined. However, how the general framework of a studio supports other pedagogic models has not been widely discussed. This article assesses a series of urban planning and design studios conducted abroad to…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models
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Hwang, Young-mee; Kim, Kwang-sun; Im, Tami – Educational Media International, 2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining importance in education owing to its rapid development. This study addresses the importance of interdisciplinary education between technology and the humanities. The use of films as a teaching resource is suitable for interdisciplinary education because films represent creative forecasts and predictions on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Films, Internet, Educational Technology
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Nilson, Michelle; Fels, Lynn; Gopaul, Bryan – Journal of Leadership Education, 2016
This research explores the various ways in which performative inquiry was implemented in a graduate organizational theories course within an educational leadership cohort at a medium-sized urban Canadian research university. Drawing on Fink's framework for significant learning experiences, the researchers used performative inquiry to enact the…
Descriptors: Organizational Theories, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Graduate Students
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Youssef, Lamiaa – College Teaching, 2010
In a world literature course, an instructor faces the challenge of engaging the students in classical texts that are historically, geographically, and linguistically "alien" to them. Through a three-step instructional model that includes approximation, thematic relevance, and application, the instructor tries to help students identify,…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), College Instruction, World Literature, Course Content
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Servan, M. J.; Soto, E.; Murillo, J. F.; Sola, M.; Perez, A. I. – Educational Action Research, 2009
The purpose of this article is to describe innovatory online teaching carried out in the inter-university master's "Educational Innovation Policies and Practices for the Knowledge Society", with the participation of Malaga, Almeria and Internacional de Andalucia Universities. The master's focuses on the exploration of a problem-based…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Models, Online Courses, Problem Based Learning
Kerekes, Judit; King, Kathleen P. – Online Submission, 2010
Trying to develop new perspectives of teaching is never easy, but trying to cultivate ownership and initiative among teacher education students is a still greater aspiration that is infrequently realized. This article addresses each of these highly valued goals for teacher educators as a case study reveals the impact of involving teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Case Studies, Constructivism (Learning), Interdisciplinary Approach
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Fallahi, Carolyn R.; Levine, Laura E.; Nicoll-Senft, Joan M.; Tessier, Jack T.; Watson, Cheryl L.; Wood, Rebecca M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
This article presents an interdisciplinary approach to course redesign that enhanced student learning across all six categories in Dee Fink's taxonomy. A meta-analysis of the results provides evidence that integrated course design produces significant learning. In this article, the authors tell four connected stories: (1) how Fink's book,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Course Descriptions, Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness
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Solomon, John; Murata, Nathan M. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2008
Physical education is a prime content area for interdisciplinary learning. The movement components of physical education can be used as a medium through which children are provided with opportunities to practice and strengthen language skills. Cone, Werner, Cone, and Woods (1998, p. 4) agree: "interdisciplinary learning is an educational process…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Teaching Models, Language Arts
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
We welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2014, taking place in Madrid, Spain, from 28 to 30 of June, 2014. Education, as an important right in our contemporary world, began since we exist. Knowledge and skills were passed by adults to the young, and cultures began to extend their experiences through various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Trends, Educational Change
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Connelly, Tom, Jr. – Journal of Allied Health, 1975
A field program entitled Kentucky January was organized for University of Kentucky allied health care students so they could see a real world demonstration of teaching models in action. This interdisciplinary approach involved teaching strategies other than traditional classroom study. (MW)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Environment, Educational Strategies, Field Instruction
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Sadker, David; Cooper, James M. – Social Studies, 1972
Constructing a matrix model not only offers the teacher a theoretical and practical method for organizing his own knowledge about a topic, but provides a vehicle for the student to cope with contemporary knowledge explosion in a realistic and sophisticated manner. (Author)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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