Looks at the tendency to stress specialization rather than breadth in teaching and research in the social sciences. Suggests a pyramidal academic structure that makes a place for the generalist and interdisciplinary instruction that synthesizes the best of the systems, historical, and problem approaches to instruction. (AYC)

Provides content area teachers with teaching strategies designed to integrate writing instruction into their classes, not only to improve student writing skills but also to enhance subject matter learning. (RL)

Describes a series of "Writing across the Curriculum Workshops" for faculty members at Michigan Technological University. (DD)

Examines the concept of interdisciplinary team teaching and poses some questions which should help answer the question in the title. (Editor/RK)

Describes three graduate and undergraduate pilot courses in technical writing directed toward students in environmental design, engineering, and business. (HOD)

Investigates issues of mathematics instruction of problems in blocks. Discusses the best way to construct mathematical problems with connections to one another as parts of a coherent whole and how to reflect on the types of connections that can arise between them. (Author/KHR)

Notes that critical-cultural studies have had little impact on journalism and mass communication education for a number of reasons. Surveys 100 journalism and mass communication programs. Examines how critical-cultural faculty interact with the university community. Finds that scholars, as a whole, were open to critical-cultural perspectives.…

Describes ideas originating in the theory and practice of computer science and shows how they could benefit the teaching and exposition of mathematics. Includes discussion of specification, syntax and semantics, formal transformations, types and polymorphisms, and self-monitoring. (29 references) (MKR)

Fascination with pedagogical technique has denigrated the intellectual life of K-12 educators and furthered the proliferation of "interdisciplinary" instructional approaches that blur important distinctions among disciplines. An atmosphere that values technique over substance tends to drive out or marginalize educators who enjoy reading and…

Outlines the structure and approach of a high school course in theater history. Includes suggestions of plays for scene work, ideas for interdisciplinary lesson plans from selected periods, and a list of books for additional reading. (SR)

Shares experiences of designing interdisciplinary curriculum, making the math-science connection, using curriculum links to meet diverse needs of students, creating the learning environment-classroom management, creating the learning environment-material development, monitoring student understanding, and stimulating optimum growth. (ASK)

Advocates alternatives to lectures for developing hands-on, interdisciplinary industrial technology practitioners. Discusses the efficacy of contextual methods such as cooperative, cross-functional, and experiential learning. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)

When selecting literature to study and perform in band, opportunities for enhancing students' understanding of the music may inadvertantly be missed. One such opportunity involves collaboration with other disciplines. The other disciplines inform the study of the music and, in turn, the association with music enhances study of the other…

For many teachers, integration of subjects like science and reading makes perfect sense; for others--including many school administrators--it does not. For these individuals, integration is an approach that takes away valuable time needed to ensure that specific learning goals are met in each discrete subject. By building on the common ground…

This twenty-first century study serves as an umbrella that incorporates history, ethnography, languages, mathematics, geography, art, and of course, astronomy. Obviously, archaeoastronomy is a deeply interdisciplinary pursuit and clearly adapts to modern-day science curriculum content standards. From extensive educational research, the authors…