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The goal of MAIS 700 will be to guide students in a reflective process on the integrated and interdisciplinary pathways of their studies in the MA-IS program.

Week 1

Nicolescu, B. (1999, April). The transdisciplinary evolution of learning. In Symposium on Overcoming the Underdevelopment of Learning at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.
Hirsch, Paul D. (2012, June 25) A Framework for Integrative Thinking about Complex Problems. [Blog Post]

Week 2

Dreyfuss, S. (2011). Something essential about interdisciplinary thinking. Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Week 5

Brydon, D. (2012). Globalization and Higher Education: Working Toward Cognitive Justice. Ch. 4 in Foshay, ed., Valences of interdisciplinarity: theory, practice, pedagogy. Athabasca University Press.
Sarewitz, D. (2010). Against holism. The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, 65-75. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
Brayboy, B. M. J. (2005) Toward a tribal critical race theory in education. The Urban Review, 37(5), 425-446.

Week 6

Code, L. (2012). Ecological Thinking as Interdisciplinary Practice: Situation, Silence, and Skepticism. Ch. 8 in Foshay, ed., Valences of interdisciplinarity: theory, practice, pedagogy. Athabasca University Press.
Batel, S., Castro, P., Devine‐Wright, P., & Howarth, C. (2016). Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 7(5), 727-745.

Week 7

Nikitina, S. (2006). Three strategies for interdisciplinary teaching: contextualizing, conceptualizing, and problem‐centring. Journal Of Curriculum Studies, 38(3), 251-272. doi:10.1080/00220270500422632
Ng, R., (2012). Decolonizing Teaching and Learning Through Embodied Learning: Toward an Integrated Approach. Ch. 15 in Foshay, ed., Valences of interdisciplinarity: theory, practice, pedagogy. Athabasca University Press.

Week 8

Szostak, R. (2012). Integrating Interdisciplinary Studies Across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ch. 7 in Foshay, ed., Valences of interdisciplinarity: theory, practice, pedagogy. Athabasca University Press.
Wahl, H., Iwarsson, S., and Oswald, F. (2012). Aging Well and the Environment: Toward an Integrative Model and Research Agenda for the Future. The Gerontologist, 52(3), 306–316.

Week 9

Szeman, I. et al (2016) On the energy humanities: Contributions from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts to understanding energy transition and energy impasse. SSHRC Imagining Canada’s Future initiative Knowledge Synthesis Grants: Energy and Natural Resources. pp. 1-32 
Angus, I. (2012). The Telos of the Good Life. Ch. 2 in Foshay, ed., Valences of interdisciplinarity: theory, practice, pedagogy. Athabasca University Press.

Week 10

Pohl, C., Krütli, P., & Stauffacher, M. (2017) Ten reflective steps for rendering research societally relevant. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives For Science And Society, 26 (1), 43-51.