Developers of multidisciplinary international-business curricula should consider the following trends: (1) geographic, historic, economic, cultural, and political influences on business; (2) influence of cultural factors on organizational behavior and management style; (3) technology for international business transactions; (4) the global monetary…

Introduces the special issue dealing with discipline formation in business communication. Notes that the special issue is meant to capture a critical juncture in the field as it struggles between competing impulses to make the field more clear, coherent, and compact and yet more tolerant, open, and dynamic. (SR)

Explores the potential of translation as a survival strategy that enables business communication specialists to continue practicing the discipline and consider translation as a powerful heuristic proposing new questions about the research agenda for business communication and, ultimately, about its disciplinary character. Uses the term…

A multidisciplinary team of health practitioners developed knowledge of health promotion and attempted to integrate that knowledge into practice. Five major themes emerged: definition of health promotion, incongruity between espoused and practiced values, reflective practice, from disease care to health promotion, and socioenvironmental…

Suggests that nature writing as a genre enacts the sort of interdisciplinarity that many in the composition field seek to promote. Explores the tensions inherent in "nature" writing, when it would seem that "nature" is signed as the opposite of "culture," and culture, in turn, takes writing as its quintessence. (RS)

Examines the discipline of technology; discusses technology education; and proposes multidisciplinary technology education, inspired through efforts in art education, as a middle path between the technology mono-discipline and design and technology curriculum. Comparative curriculum and the organization of knowledge in multidisciplinary technology…

Discusses the special needs and opportunities for effective faculty and graduate-student mentoring of undergraduates within an interdisciplinary model. The model was used in a series of large, science-based, interdisciplinary, introductory courses at the University of Michigan, but any interdisciplinary faculty team can apply the lessons learned…

Compares training of self-directed work teams in business with the potential of interdisciplinary teams in geriatrics. Possible pitfalls in conforming to the health care culture, obtaining management commitment, and dealing with the diversity and independence of health care professionals reflect the need for deep commitment to team development.…

Suggests that arts education can be used as a curriculum model for the integration of the cognitive and affective domains. Highlights include aesthetics, an interdisciplinary approach, instructional methods in art, transfer to other disciplines, and implications for instructional design. (LRW)

Discusses the value of closer integration of the biomedical and behavioral sciences but notes that the scholarship of integration has been slow to gain acceptance as an integral activity of the professoriate. Suggestions include creating new research entities and funding mechanisms dedicated to interdisciplinary work; reinvorgating the integrative…

Attempts to answer the question, Can school science be both a scientific and a literary experience or--in particular-an aesthetic, poetic experience? Highlights the power of poetry to stimulate observation, imagination, and emotion in school science. Examples of poems from published sources are used to illustrate ways in which verse can be used…

Reviews work presented at the 1998 national conference for Writing Program Administrators as it supports a calls for interdisciplinary collaboration to help meet postindustrial concerns. Shows that disciplinarity can function to reinscribe traditional conceptions of knowledge. Offers an extended example of a fully structured, institutionally…

Discusses metadata, digital resources, cross-disciplinary activity, and standards. Highlights include Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML); Extensible Markup Language (XML); Dublin Core; Resource Description Framework (RDF); Text Encoding Initiative (TEI); Encoded Archival Description (EAD); art and cultural-heritage metadata initiatives;…

Describes empirical research into the effectiveness of using concepts and principles of physics in the teaching of geometrical proofs. Demonstrates, tentatively, that proofs from physics could be a viable addition to the mathematics curriculum. (Author/MM)

This primer on bringing the world into the business classroom presents strategies and techniques for moving students from cultural awareness to cultural fluency. It discusses employers' need for workers who are globally astute. (SK)