Reviews a selection of recent studies from various disciplines on information and social equity and on the digital divide in order to outline a basic conceptual framework for considering information equity. Highlights include equity versus equality; vertical and horizontal perspectives; social capital and public goods; and intellectual property.…

Describes an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the strengths of a research and teaching institution to address issues in a complex problem: the study of race, science, and health. The model involved a feedback loop among two undergraduate courses and a weekly seminar. (SLD)

Discusses a number of different approaches to theme study or thematic units and various ways in which the arts can be included. (SR)

Examines applied linguistics as a research project analogous to other disciplines and presumes a need for cross-disciplinary perspectives in language studies. Argues that applied linguistics shares a position intersecting with neighboring sciences and with all other sciences, each of which demarcates its own space in contested and shared ground.…

Points out how living systems can be used in classrooms as an excellent interdisciplinary teaching tool. Explains how to build a simple desktop living system. (YDS)

Describes organization, curriculum, and challenges of operating the World Languages and International Studies Academy, an international-studies program (school within a school) in an Elgin, Illinois, high school. (PKP)

Discusses general versus specialized education in Germany, examining problems with the sharp divide between general education before college and specialized education afterwards. Explores ways to encourage subject-transcending studies in higher education, such as promoting "general abilities" and reflective thinking. (EV)

Describes an alternative teaching model of content-based instruction, Collaborative Interdisciplinary Team Teaching (CITT), used in an English-medium Japanese liberal arts university, highlighting the main features of CITT by comparing it to other relevant models. The article describes how the model has been applied, then discusses perceived…

Summarizes themes of articles in this special issue: developmental research must be longitudinal and would benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration; career development research should incorporate both personal and contextual variables; and designs and analyses that provide normative information but obscure interactions among these variables…

Health care workers at eight sites were trained to serve on interdisciplinary geriatric care teams. Challenges included differing levels of experience and geriatric knowledge, discipline specific-language and practice philosophies, and scheduling conflicts. Techniques to overcome them included case studies, standardized patients, cross-discipline…

Describes an interdisciplinary framework to prepare practitioners for working with children and youth. With the child at its center, the model includes context (environmental influences on the child), the learner (the practitioner in training), and practice. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)

Discusses a number of Theo van Doesburg's paintings concerning arithmetic composition. (KHR)

Presents an adaptation of Biggs and Collis' (1982) Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome which illustrates stages of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and explains corresponding patterns of learners' intellectual functioning, from acquisition of single-subject information to transfer of interdisciplinary knowledge to other topics,…

Argues that an integrative, interdisciplinary curriculum organized around a set of practical problems would strengthen the effectiveness of home economics' programs in higher education. (Author)

An analysis of selected approaches associated with food and nutrition is used to serve as an example of how the potential for integration in concepts and knowledge in home economics may be formulated. (Author)