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Professional Development Workshops

Invited Guest Speaker

Hosted on behalf of the Interdisciplinary PhD Society

Although there is no registration fee, please register to ensure adequate materials are available. Contact CLT at 494-1622 or email CLT@Dal.Ca with your name, department, and phone number.

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Doing Interdisciplinary Research

Julie Klein

Dr. Julie Klein

Dr. Julie Klein is Professor of Humanities in the English Department and Faculty Fellow in the Office for Teaching and Learning at Wayne State University In Detroit, Michigan.  Klein is past president of the Association for Integrative Studies (AIS) and former editor of the AIS journal, Issues in Integrative Studies. Her books include Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (l990), Interdisciplinary Studies Today (co-edited, 1994), Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities (1996), Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society (co-edited, 2001), Interdisciplinary Education in K-12 and College (edited, 2002), the monograph Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies (1999), Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy (2005), and Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures (2010). She was also Associate Editor of the Oxford Handbook on Interdisciplinarity (2010), and author of numerous chapters and articles.

Thursday, March 15, 2012
2:00  - 3:30PM
Killam Library, Room B400

This Workshop will examine models of how to perform interdisciplinary research (IDR) in educational settings. The models include a short synthesis of Allen Repko's detailed guidelines for IDR by individuals; Tanya Augsburg's introduction to interdisciplinary studies; Hursh, Haas, and Moore's model for general education; Carnegie Scholars' course portfolios;  adaptable practices from models of collaborative IDR; and composite FAQs for finding key definitions, bodies of knowledge and information, methods, tools, concepts, and theories.