Navigating the Interdisciplinary Archipelago: The Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Publication Title

Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground

Abstract

Interdisciplinary studies have always been intimately linked with the scholarship of teaching and learning. Theoretical explorations of the relationship of the disciplines to interdisciplinarity are crucial to the scholarship of inter-disciplinary teaching and learning, because, as Newell has pointed out, the traditional disciplines are the foundation of interdisciplinary work. The literature on effective interdisciplinary teaching focuses in part on how much preparation in the disciplines is necessary before both faculty and students alike engage in interdisciplinary work. Many authors also emphasize interdisciplinary teaching as an effective form of faculty development and have also not neglected the crucial role of institutional reform that must often accompany implementation of interdisciplinary programs. Like the scholarship of teaching, a dedicated corps of enthusiastic practitioners who were both promoting new ideas and simultaneously developing a set of shared practices and perspectives created interdisciplinary studies programs.

Department

History and Geography

First Page

87

Last Page

106

DOI

10.4324/9781003444268-5

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