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ERIC Number: EJ1267051
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-2166-2681
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Creating Common Ground: A Process to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Conversation among University Faculty
Goedereis, Eric A.; MacCartney, Danielle
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, v8 n2 p173-183 2019
This manuscript offers a framework for encouraging faculty from diverse disciplines to consider and evaluate their teaching, scholarship, and service in interdisciplinary ways. This process integrates Repko's (2008) criteria for interdisciplinarians, Doran, Miller, and Cunningham's (1981) conceptualization of S.M.A.R.T. goals, and McCoy and Gardner's (2012) five key social structural components, in order to further cultivate faculty members' identities as interdisciplinarians. We outline a process aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary conversation among university faculty and present resulting examples of faculty members' specific action plans for their own interdisciplinarity within their teaching, research, and service activities. This framework provides a roadmap for faculty and institutions interested in purposefully and meaningfully facilitating interdisciplinarity across a variety of academic settings.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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