Interdisciplinary Teaching

by Tian Ni and Christopher Hagmann For ENE 695 at Purdue University -- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ SOURCES You might be someone who is confident teaching an engineering course, but what if you were asked to teach a liberal arts class? Interdisciplinary Teaching Researchers at Montana State University[i] wanted to know what would happen when an expert in one field tried to teach in another field, espe ________________________________________ [i] Peters, D. S. (1982). Interdisciplinary teaching. Alternative Higher Education, 6(4), 229–241. doi:10.1007/BF01079370 [ii] Nikitina, S. (2006). Three strategies for interdisciplinary teaching: contextualizing, conceptualizing, and problem-centring. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 38(3), 251–271. doi:10.1080/00220270500422632 [iii] Benbasat, J. A., & Gass, C. L. (2002). Reflections on integration, interaction, and community: the Science One program and beyond. Conservation Ecology, 5(2), 26. Retrieved from http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss2/art26/