An interdisciplinary curriculum model facilitates the development of integrative thinking skills and enhances the quality of undergraduate teaching and learning in five ways. Benefits accrue to both faculty and students from the collaboration of faculty and the joining of disciplines to focus on specific themes or issues. (Author/MSE)

Describes the design, implementation, evaluation and outcomes of using writing across the curriculum in a package of composition, history, and environmental science courses offered to 50 developmental writers attending the University of Minnesota's General College. Writing was taught as a learning strategy related to critical thinking and content…

A Chapter 1 school motivated students using technology and the arts. A partnership with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts helped students develop cognitive and creative skills while working in concrete ways. Using computers, each class chose an artist, developed a class museum, and exhibited at the student-staffed museum. (SM)

As middle school educators refine interdisciplinary teaming, numerous challenges have emerged, notably the development of interdisciplinary units and personality-compatible teams, design of instruction to challenge honor students while motivating low achievers, and integration of subject areas into thematic topics. As the New Kids pilot project…

Reviews five books for teachers: "Connecting the Curriculum through Interdisciplinary Instruction" (Lounsbury); "Caring for Our Children. National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs"; "Families and Schools in a Pluralistic Society" (Chavkin); "Team Building through Physical Challenges" (Glover…

Describes the history of Richard Blakemore's discovery of magnetotaxic organisms. Discusses possible reasons why the magnetic response in bacteria developed. Proposes research experiments integrating biology and physics in which students investigate problems using cultures of magnetotaxic organisms. (MDH)

Presents a wordfind puzzle game based on multilingualism in Canada. Includes languages of European and Asian derivation only. (CFR)

Examines why the arts, particularly dance, are significant in education and why art forms should be taught with other disciplines. The article provides examples of integrated arts experiences and describes how to begin with the essence of an idea and make connections in the arts and other curriculum areas. (SM)

Describes the set up, organization, structure, and evaluation of an interdisciplinary course on science, technology, and needs of society. (PR)

Describes the new general education program at James Madison University (Virginia) and the process by which it was developed. Indicates that the program is organized by five broad areas of knowledge that are defined by interdisciplinary clusters of learning objectives, which in turn were developed using input from every academic department on…

Describes the collaborative team teaching of an interdisciplinary graduate course for preservice teachers, offering guidelines for faculty wishing to undertake collaborative teaching in higher education: develop the course, establish mutual respect and trust, meet regularly as a team, process the experience, promote commitment, agree on evaluation…

Examines how theoretical and paradigmatic differences among interdisciplinary faculty are reflected in the ongoing work of a school with departments of communication, journalism, and library and information science. Reveals the presence of two groups of faculty whose members coparticipate more cohesively within themselves than between groups; and…

Presents some of the elements which have been typical of music in different contexts and cultures, and describes an approach to musical phenomena that relates them to the intercultural and interdisciplinary dimension of lifelong education. Asserts that music in all its forms can help to form a dynamic, pluralist identity in the European context.…

Excellence in undergraduate education became the first goal of SUNY President Shirley Strum Kenny's broadly-based five-year plan. Its capstone is the report "Reinventing Undergraduate Education." Kenny thinks freshman education can be improved by initiating block scheduling, interdisciplinarity, mentoring, and experiential and…

Discusses how, by taking advantage of naturally occurring events in the classroom and at home, adults can help young children acquire five important scientific processes: observing, comparing, classifying, measuring, and communicating. Stresses the importance of science-related children's literature as a component of the science curriculum, as…