Part Two
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+Kockelmans, Joseph, ed. Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.
The chapters of this volume "...detail the richness of opportunity and challenge opened by interdisciplinary innovations..." (xiii). Joseph K. Kockelmans edits the work and writes the first chapter on the breadth of information necessary for an "interdisciplinary" discussion. Carl Hausman examines the real and misguided objections to interdisciplinary restructuring at universities. Wolfram Swoboda discusses the historical evolution of disciplinarity in an attempt to find components for modern interdisciplinary restructuring. The development interdisciplinary and the distribution of knowledge in a college setting provide the context for Hans Flexner. In a quest for linear terminology, Kockelmans rejoins the discussion addressing the term interdisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity and transdisciplinary.
Rustum Roy uses his experience in interdisciplinary education and research to present the potential and shortfalls of the increasing interdisciplinary research community. Muzafer Sherif details the evolution of crossborrowing in the social science; this exchange of information is necessary for the complete study of the various social disciplines and has occurred without debate. Vincent Kavaloski discusses the validity of interdisciplinary education methodology but reveals the crossborrowing of the disciplinary approaches hinders the disseminating knowledge. Jonathan Broido proposes that interdisciplinary methodology fails to preserve the substance of the disciplines involved. Robert L. Scott deals with interdisciplinary personal and institutional problems. Hans Flexner and Gerard A. Hauser contemplate interdisciplinary paradigms and recount the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.
Bellah, Robert, et al. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Brooks, Anne, and Un-chol Shin. "Past, Present and Future of Interdisciplinarity Humanities." Humanities Education (September 1984): 3-9.
Brown, C. W. "A New Interdisciplinary Impulse and the Anthropology of the 1990's." International Social Science Journal 40 (May 1988): 211-20.
Caldwell, Lynton K. "Environmental Studies: Discipline or Metadiscipline." The Environmental Professional 5 (1989): 247-59.
Callon, Michel, John Law, and Arie Rip, eds. Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology: Sociology of Science in the Real World. London: Macmillan, 1986.
Casey, Beth A. "The Quiet Revolution: The Transformation and Reintegration of Humanities." Issues in Integrative Studies 4 (1986): 71-92.
Clark, Mary E. Ariande's Thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1989.
Costanza, Robert. "What Is Ecological Economics?" Ecological Economics 1 (1989): 1-7.
Dihle, Albrecht. "Interdisciplinary Scholarship in the Humanities: The Reallexikon." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 11.2 (1986): 107-9.
@Dillon. J. T., ed. Questioning and Discussing: A Multidisciplinary Study. Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1988.
Goody, Jack. "History and Anthropology: Convergence and Divergence." Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology Academia Sinica 75 (Spring 1993): 1-26.
Hinden, Michael. "Bridges: A Modest Proposal to Connect the Disciplines." Liberal Education 70 (Spring 1984): 13-16.
Horn, T. C. R., and Harry Ritter. "Interdisciplinary History: A Historiographical Review." History Teacher 19.3 (1986): 427- 48.
Kemper, Robert V. "Anthropology and 'The Common Education Experience': Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Teaching at Southern Methodist University." Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 18 (Spring 1989): 17-32.
Klein, Julie Thompson, and William G. Doty. Interdisciplinary Studies Today. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Kockelmans, Joseph. "Interdisciplinarity and the University: The Dream and the Reality." Issues in Integrative Studies 4 (1986): 1-46.
Logan, Richard D. "Bridging the Traditional and Non- Traditional." Liberal Education 69.3 (1983): 233-43.
McCall, Robert B. "Promoting Interdisciplinary and Faculty- Service-Provider Relations." American Psychologist 45 (December 1990): 1319-24.
Mc Naron, A. H., and Pamela Olano. Multicultural Nests: Finding a Writing Voice About Literature by Women of Color. Minneapolis: Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Minnesota, 1993.
Miller, James Grier, and Jesse Louise Miller. "Systems Science: An Emerging Interdisciplinary Field." Center Magazine (September/October 1981): 44-55.
Miller, Marjorie C. "On Making Connections." Liberal Education 69.2 (1983): 101-7.
Newell, William H., ed. and comp. Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Programs: A Directory. Oxford: Association for Integrative Studies, 1986.
---."Interdisciplinary Studies are Alive and Well." Association for Integrative Studies Newsletter 10.1 (1988): 6-8.
Nicholson, Carol. "Post-Modernism and the Present State of Integrative Studies." Issues in Integrative Studies 5 (1987): 19-34.
Peterson, Russell W. "Integrated Studies: Education for the Professional Generalist." L & S Magazine (Spring 1988).
Reck, Gregory, and Susan E. Keefe. "Nonanthropologists Teaching Anthropology: Anthropology as Intellectual Hobby." Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 18 (Spring 1989): 67-75.
Salomone, Ronald E. "The Humanities: Interconnections. Teaching English Language Arts 2.11 (1985).
Schneider, Stephen H. "The Whole Earth Dialogue." Issues in Science and Technology. (Spring 1988): 90-98.
Shapiro, B. J., and J. Whaley. Selection of Library Materials in Applied and Interdisciplinary Fields. Chicago: American Library Association, 1987.
Stember, Marilyn. "Advancing the Social Science Through the Interdisciplinary Enterprise; A Residential Address" The Social Science Journal 28.1 (1990): 1-14.
Stillinger, Jack. Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Sutlive, Vinson H. "Breakthrough or Babel: Communication or Confusion in Interdisciplinary Education." Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 18 (Spring 1989): 59-109.
Turner, Frederick. Natural Classicism: Essays on Literature and Science. New York: Paragon House, 1985.
Weaver, Frederick. "Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Study, and Minor Programs of Study." Issues in Integrative Studies 4 (1986), 37-55.
Winkelman, Michael. "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on
Consciousness." Anthropology of Consciousness 5.2 (June 1995): 16-25.
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@Clark, Mary E. and Sandra A. Wawrytko, eds. Rethinking the Curriculum: Toward an Integrated Interdisciplinary College Education. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Clark and Wawrytko assembled papers from global authors designed to "shake up" disciplinary separatism in university education after sponsoring the "Rethinking the Curriculum" conference in San Diego, California June 19-23, 1989.
The focus of these assembled works relies on the inability of current educational paradigms to serve the needs of the students entering a global world of economics, ecology, and humanitarianism. The conference papers highlight the shortfalls of narrow disciplinary study and the lack of gestalt when coping with social and economic problems. The authors remind the readers of the commonality between all disciplines; an interdisciplinary curriculum defines the essential commonalities in terms of a holistic knowledge, interdisciplinary answers, and a global sense of responsibility. While acknowledging the need for scientists or other well defined professionals, a new "generalist" graduate is called for. An individual called to weigh and balance current technical information in light of the long range, environment, and social needs of our the global resources.
Reviews of the interdisciplinary programs at Central Missouri State University and the Interdisciplinary General Education Program of California State Polytechnic University at Pomona are included.
Aiken, Susan Hardy. "Trying Transformations: Curriculum Integration and the Problems of Resistance." Signs 12 (Winter 1987): 255-75.
Arons, A. B. "Critical Thinking and Baccalaureate Curriculum." Liberal Education 71.2 (1985): 141-57.
Bettlestone, John, and Charles Taylor. "Linking Science and Drama." Impact of Science on Society 32 (November/December 1982): 473-80.
Blum, Mark. "Introducing the Liberal Arts Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Proposal for an Integrative General Education Experience." Issues in Integrative Studies 3 (1984/1985): 57-89.
Bohm, David. Science, Order and Creativity. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1987.
Bok, Derek. Higher Learning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Brundtland, Gro Harlem. Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987.
Carney, Carmen Vega. "Making Fiction Integrative: The Role of Literature in the International Business Curriculum." 13th Annual Eastern Michigan University Conference on Language and Communication for World Business and the Professions. Ypsilanti, MI. April 14-16, 1994.
Casey, Beth H. "The Quiet Revolution: The Transformation and Reintegration of the Humanities." Issues in Integrative Studies 4 (1986): 71-92.
Clunk, Nancy Anne. "Reflections on the Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Humanities." Liberal Education 66.1 (1989): 67-77.
Davis, David J. "The Cluster College Revisited: A Dream Falls on Hard Times." College Teaching 33.1 (1985): 15-20.
Diamond, R. M. Designing and Improving Courses and Curriculum in Higher Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1989.
Frank, David John, Evan Schofer, and John Charles Torres. "Rethinking History: Change in the University Curriculum." Sociology of Education 67 (October 1994): 231-42.
The Forum for Liberal Education 8.4 (1986). Special issue on interdisciplinary education.
Gabelnick, F. "Curriculum Design: The Medium is the Message." Eds. P. G. Friedman and R. C. Jenkins-Friedman. "Fostering Academic Excellence Through Honors Programs." New Directions for Teaching and Learning 25. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1986.
Halpaap, Achim Alexander. Global Environmental Education at the University Level: A Model Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Education. Thesis. University of Oregon, 1989.
Rosser, Sue V. "Women's Studies: A Model for a Specialty in Women's Health." Transformations 4.1 (Spr 1993): 9-21.
Smith, Bill B. "The Washington Center: A Grass Roots Approach to Faculty Development and Curricular Reform." To Improve the Academy 7 (1988): 165-177.
Stember, Marilyn. "Advancing the Social Science Through the Interdisciplinary Enterprise; A Residential Address." The Social Science Journal 28.1 (1990): 1-14.
Sutlive, Vinson H. "Breakthrough or Babel: Communication or Confusion in Interdisciplinary Education." Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 18 (Spring 1989): 59-109.
Vosskamp, Wilhelm. "From Scientific Specialization to the
Dialogue Between the Disciplines." Issues in Integrative Studies 4
(1986): 17-36.
Ziegler, Jerome M. "Experiential Learning and the Purpose of a
College Education." Human Ecology Forum 16.3 (1987): 2-5.
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COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
@Bruffee, Kenneth A. Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
This volume initiates the reader into the conceptual, theoretical, and actual properties of a collaborative education model. Bruffee's professional experience resides in the English department. However, he stresses that he "... has been foraging in other peoples pastures: anthropology, philosophy, sociology, education, computer technology, the natural sciences, ...even law and medicine" (viii). Pointing to the deficiencies of the current university system, Bruffee highlights competitiveness, individuality, and lack of cultural tolerance as problems that face the classroom, society, and the work place. The solution is a properly executed collaborative "acculturation" in a university setting.
The restructuring of the educational paradigm starts with the premise of nonfoundational knowledge--assuming knowledge is socially constructed and learned in a peer group. Current socialization tendencies (narcissistic in nature) impair social learning; therefore, a collaborative education necessitates positive interdependence experiences among students which translates into better interdependence skills in the workplace and society. Finally, the interdependence skills create a healthier view of the authority granted to knowledge and the professors within the community of education. Bruffee includes several chapters on the nonfoundational knowledge concept and concludes with an undergraduate curriculum with "nonfoundational understanding of knowledge."
+Bosworth, Kris, and Sharon J. Hamilton, eds. "Collaborative Learning: Underlying Processes and Effective Techniques." New Directions for Teaching and Learning 59. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.
With the intention of facilitating a renaissance in educational methodology, Bosworth and Hamilton assembled nine chapters that survey current thought on collaborative learning. The volume elaborates on the processes and effective methodology of collaborative education. Jeanne Marcum Gerlach begins with the characteristics of a successful collaborative course. James Flannery delves into the role of knowledge in a collaborative setting and exemplifies the epistemological necessities of lecture-transmission, cooperative learning, and collaborative learning.
Many authors in this volume highlight the social interactionendemic to a classroom and how collaboration develops social skills, increases ethnic tolerance and develops social cooperation. A case study of a biology classroom by Judith Miller, John Trimbur and John Wilks displays how varying personal social types create different climates in a collaborative learning setting. Acknowledging the high priority of critical thinking in education, Craig Nelson considers the connectivity between collaborative learning, predominant education theories and empirical critical thinking enhancement techniques.
Patricia Sulivan discusses the integration of multimedia technology into collaborative writing class . Sharon Cramer delineates the importance and differences of evaluating collaborative education--including tools, strategies, processes and products. Finally, Sharon Hamilton presents several collaborative learning models with curriculum development insights for facility members inexperienced in collaborative education.
Bazerman, Charles. Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of Experimental Article in Science. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
Bruffee, Kenneth A. "Collaborative Learning and the Conversation of Mankind." College English 46 (1984):635-652.
---. "Liberal Education, Scholarly Community and the Authority of Knowledge." Liberal Education 71 (1985): 231-239.
---. "On Not Listening in Order To Hear: Collaborative Learning and the Rewards of Classroom Research." Journal of Basic Writing 7.1 (1988): 3-12.
---. "Social Construction, Language, and the Authority of Knowledge: A Bibliographical Essay." College English 48 (1986): 773-90.
---. "The Art of Collaborative Learning." Change, (March/April 1987): 42-47.
Castelucci, M. F., and P. Miller. Practicing Collaborative Learning. New York: CUNY College of Staten Island, 1986.
Cohen, E. G. Designing Groupwork: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press, 1986.
Ede, L. "The Case for Collaboration." Paper presented at the College Composition and Communication Conference, Atlanta, 1987.
--- and A. Lunsford. Singular Texts, Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
Gitterman, Alex and Lawrence Shulman, eds. Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable Populations, and Life Cycle. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
+Goodsell, Anne, Michelle Maher, and Vincent Tinto. Collaborative Learning: A Sourcebook for Higher Education. University Park: National Center on Postsecondary Teaching Learning, and Assessment, 1992.
Hamilton, S. J. and E. Hansen, eds. Sourcebook for Collaborative Learning in the Arts and Sciences. Bloomington: Center for Media and Teaching Resources, Indiana University, 1992.
Hawkes, Peter. "Collaboration Learning and American Literature." College Teaching 39 (1991): 140-44.
Johnson, David W. "Effects of Cooperative, Competitive and Individualistic Goal Structures on Achievement: A Meta- Analysis." Psychological Bulletin 89 (1981): 47-62.
---, et al. Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom. Alexandria: Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1984.
---, and Roger Johnson. Learning Together and Alone. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1987.
Newcomb, Theodore, and K. Everett. "Student Peer-Group Influence." Ed. Nevitt Sanford. The American College: A Psychological and Social Interpretation of Higher Learning. New York: Wiley, 1962.
---, eds. College Peer Groups: Problems and Prospects for Research. Chicago: Aldine, 1966.
Reither, James A., and Douglas Vipond. "Writing as Collaboration." College English 51 (1989): 855-67.
Romer, K. T. "Collaboration: New Forms of Learning, New Ways of Thinking." Forum for Liberal Education 8 (November/December 1985): 2-12.
---. Models of Collaboration in Undergraduate Education. Providence: Brown University, 1985.
Sullivan, Patricia. "Computer Classrooms and the Collaborative Education of Professional Writers." SIGCUE Outlook 21.3 (1992): 55-58.
Trimbur, J. "Collaborative Learning and Teaching Writing." Perspectives on Recent Research and Scholarship in Composition. Eds. Ben W. Mc Clelland and Timothy R. Donovan. New York: Modern Language Association, 1985.
---. "Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning." College English 51.10 (1989): 602-616.
Whipple, W. "Collaborative Learning: Recognizing It When You See It." AAHE Bulletin 40.2 (1987): 3-7.
Wiener, H. "Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: A Guide to Evaluation." College English 48.1 (1986): 52-61.
Continue Interdisciplinarity in Post-Secondary Eudcation: A Bibliographical Search.
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