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deLusé, Stephanie R.; Thomas, David A. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
Study abroad and for-credit internships are both high-impact educational practices. Yet even before the downturn in students studying abroad in the COVID-19 era, the Institute for International Education's "Open Doors" reports indicated that in recent pre-pandemic years only about 7% of study abroad programs included for-credit…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Study Abroad, Internship Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach
Litsou, Katerina; McKee, Alan; Byron, Paul; Ingham, Roger – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020
This article reports on an interdisciplinary project that conducted a series of systematic reviews of academic research about the use of pornography and sexual health. Academics from a variety of disciplines were involved; half of the team had a background in humanities and the other half a background in psychology. While working closely together,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research, Psychology, Humanities
Gardner, Alexander C.; Espinoza, Benjamin; Noble, Chelsea; Amey, Marilyn; Farrell-Cole, Patricia – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019
This study explores how life science researchers conceptualize, operationalize, and value Interdisciplinary Research (IDR). We interviewed a sample of 10 established life science faculty to understand the researchers' lived experiences and perspectives on participating in IDR. Six themes emerged from our data: (1) IDR requires the integration of…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Scientists, Scientific Research, Interdisciplinary Approach
Lotrecchiano, Gaetano R.; Hess, Andi – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019
Throughout 2018 we had the privilege of engaging with Julie Thompson Klein using an ethnographic approach combining interviews via teleconferencing and email exchanges to discuss many aspects of her work with the goal of understanding how she herself views her scholarly evolution over the past five decades. Discussions about Klein's life quickly…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Interdisciplinary Approach, Videoconferencing, Scholarship
Pohl, Christian; Fam, Dena; Hoffmann, Sabine; Mitchell, Cynthia – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019
Julie Thompson Klein's contributions to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research have enriched the way collaboration is discussed and handled by introducing concepts of boundary work and boundary crossing from the field of Science and Technology Studies. In recent years, she has been integrating those concepts into crossdisciplinarity, an…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research, Cooperation, Sustainability
Keestra, Machiel – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018
Many colleagues who have become active in AIS have experienced that their membership has entailed friendships with like-minded people, thanks to Bill Newell's creation of a welcoming atmosphere from which both individuals and the organization have benefitted. Musing upon the words behind the acronym AIS, and anticipating its historic first…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Conferences (Gatherings), Group Membership, Organizations (Groups)
Wallace, Richard L.; Clark, Susan G. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2017
Multiple barriers in the structure and function of American higher education conspire to impede the success of interdisciplinary programs in environmental studies. We present an amalgamated narrative case study to illustrate how barriers operate both independently and in concert to undermine individual and programmatic goals, innovation, and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Educational Trends
Lash-Marshall, Whitney G.; Nomura, Christopher T.; Eck, Kimberly; Hirsch, Paul D. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2017
This article describes a strategic intervention to empower interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research groups to develop strategies for overcoming barriers to the collaborative process. We report on an application of the intervention with a team of researchers working on the development of "green materials" to reduce energy…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Researchers, Intervention, Barriers
Haynes, Carolyn – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014
In the opening credits of the television cult classic "Iron Chef," Chairman Kaga takes a huge bite out of a big yellow bell pepper. With the ensuing smirk on his face, he introduces the famous "Kitchen Stadium," which he notes is his "dream in a form never seen before." What follows is a learning experience in which…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Activities, Learning Activities, College Faculty
Tayler, Marilyn R. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014
The author demonstrates that entry-level students can achieve a more comprehensive understanding of complex problems through an explicitly interdisciplinary approach than through a merely multidisciplinary approach, using the process described in Repko's (2014) "Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies." Repko takes the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Case Studies, Arabs, Foreign Countries
Ryan, Phillip; Kurtz, Jill Sornsen; Carter, Deanne; Pester, Danielle – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014
This article is a collaboration by the lead faculty member in a Masters program in Intercultural Studies and students who completed the program under his aegis. This article presents the program's approach to its research course sequence, an approach involving the integration of interdisciplinary and qualitative research. The authors first provide…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Graduate Study
Razzaq, Jamila; Townsend, Tony; Pisapia, John – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013
This study explores what academics in one major university in Great Britain (The Great Western University) perceive interdisciplinary research (IDR) to be, and in doing so, differentiates it from associated concepts, such as multidisciplinary research and transdisciplinary research, found in the research literature. This study is important because…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Mixed Methods Research, Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews