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Week 1: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Activities

Bergland, B. (2018). The incompatibility of neoliberal university structures and interdisciplinary knowledge: A feminist slow scholarship critique. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(11), 1031–1036.
Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167. 
Dreyfuss, S. (2011). Something essential about interdisciplinary thinking. Issues in Interdisciplinary Integrative Studies, 29, 67–83.  
Streck, D. R. (2020). Transdisciplinary as a decolonizing research practice: A Latin America perspective. Diálogos Latinoamericanos, 29, 88–100. 

Week 2: Interdisciplinary Social Problems Activity

Du Bois, W. E. B. (1935). The coming of the Lord. In Black reconstruction: An essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860–1880 (pp. 84–127). Harcourt, Brace and Company. 
Ng, R. (2011). Chapter 15: Decolonizing teaching and learning through embodied learning: Toward an integrated approach. In R. Foshay (Ed.), Valences of interdisciplinarity: Theory, practice, pedagogy (pp. 343–365). Athabasca University Press.  
Poulos, C. N. (2019). STAND UP! A performance autoethnography of resistance. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(6), 547–549.
Sharma, M., & Samarin, M. (2022). Rental tenure and rent burden: Progress in interdisciplinary scholarship and pathways for geographical research. GeoJournal, 87, 3403–3421.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (2015). Colonialism in the age of empire. In Canada’s residential schools: The history, Part 1, Origins to 1939: The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (pp. 9–24). McGill-Queen’s University Press. 

Week 4: Interdisciplinary Research and Peer Feedback

Breen, A. V., Falconer, T. A., Squires, K., Martin, S., Swain, A., Lipinski, E., Avery, K., Briscoe, C., Marchand, C., Myers, M., Wylie-Curia, N., Bryenton, S., & Sams, A. (2023). Ways of knowing and becoming: Learning together in a graduate course on interdisciplinarity. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 14(2).
Poulos, C. N. (2024). Why I write autoethnography. Journal of Autoethnography, 5(4), 533–539.
For perspectives on receiving peer feedback as writers, you may enjoy these editorials written by MA-IS professors:
Lengelle, R. (2014). Take it like a real writer: Succeeding in peer-reviewed publishing. Journal of Integrated Studies, 5(2). 
McCutcheon, M. (2018). On rejection; or, If you’ve alarmed a journal editor, you must be on to something. Journal of Integrated Studies, 10(1). 

Week 5: Revision and Completion of Reflective Essay

Gibson. K. (2024). Action research and transformation: Lessons from three decades of practice. Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica, 70(1), 27–50.
Nikitina, S. (2006). Three strategies for interdisciplinary teaching: Contextualizing, conceptualizing, and problem‐centring. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 38(3), 251–271.  

Week 7: Share Feedback on Capstone Project Proposals

Ackerman, A. (2024, September 12). The ultimate guide for giving and receiving feedback. Writers Helping Writers.

MAIS 700 Readings Repository

Books
Barroso Romero, R., Begemann, E., Friedrich, E., Malagoli, E., Rieger, A. K., Rüpke, J., Soneira Martínez, R., & Vinzent, M. (Eds.). (2024). Practicing interdisciplinarity: A bottom-up approach. De Gruyter Brill.
Gadamer, H.-G. (2004). Truth and method. (J. Weinsheimer & D. G. Marshall, Eds. & Trans.; 2nd ed.) Continuum. (Original work published 1975)  
Lury, C., Fensham, R., Heller-Nicholas, A., Lammes, S., Last, A., Michael, M., & Uprichard, E. (Eds.). (2018). Routledge handbook of interdisciplinary research methods. Routledge.
Strober, M. H. (2010). Interdisciplinary conversations: Challenging habits of thought. Stanford University Press.  
Chapters
Du Bois, W. E. B. (1935). The general strike. In Black reconstruction: An essay toward a history of the part which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860–1880 (pp. 55–83). Harcourt, Brace and Company. 
Foshay, R. (Ed.). (2011). Valences of interdisciplinarity: Theory, practice, pedagogy. Athabasca University Press.  

From Valences of Interdisciplinarity:

Chapter 2: The Telos of the Good Life: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity and Models of Knowledge, by Ian Angus, pp. 47–71

Chapter 4: Globalization and Higher Education: Working Toward Cognitive Justice, by Diana Brydon, pp. 97–119

Chapter 7: Integrating Interdisciplinary Studies Across the Humanities and Social Sciences, by Rick Szostak, pp. 165–188

Chapter 8: Ecological Thinking as Interdisciplinary Practice: Situation, Silence, and Skepticism, by Lorraine Code, pp. 191–211
Lengelle, R., & Meijers, F. (2019). Poetic reflexivity and the birth of career writing: An autoethnographic love story. In K. Maree & C. Wilby (Eds.), Innovating career counselling theory, research, and practice (pp. 539–555). Springer.  

Repko, A. F., Newell, W. H., & Szostak, R. (Eds.). (2012). Case studies in interdisciplinary research. Sage.

From the course eText (link provided in eText module):

Chapter 1: The Interdisciplinary Research Process, by Rick Szostak, pp. 3–19

Chapter 4: Mektoub: When Art Meets History, Philosophy, and Linguistics, by Mieke Bal, pp. 91–119

Chapter 5: Integrating Theory-Based Insights on the Causes of Suicide Terrorism, by Allen F. Repko, pp. 125–158

Chapter 9: Integrative Theory in Criminology Applied to the Complex Social Problem of School Violence, by Stuart Henry and Nicole L. Bracy, pp. 259–282

Chapter 10: Research Integration: A Comparative Knowledge Base, by Julie Thompson Klein, pp. 283–298

Conclusion, by William H. Newell, pp. 299–314
Sarewitz, D. (2010). Against holism. In R. Frodeman (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of interdisciplinarity (pp. 65–75). Oxford University Press. 
Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (2015). We are all Treaty people. In Honouring the truth, reconciling for the future: Summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 354–362. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 
Video
Office of the Treaty Commissioner. (n.d.). We are all Treaty people [Video]. Vimeo. 
Articles
Baker. J. (2016). Research as reciprocity: Northern Cree community-based and community-engaged research on wild food contamination in Alberta’s oil sands region. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2(1), 109–124.
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. WIREs Climate Change, 7(5), 727–745.
Brayboy, B. M. J. (2005). Toward a tribal critical race theory in education. The Urban Review, 37(5), 425–446. 
Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299.  
Grant, A. (2017). Drinking to relax: An autoethnography of a highland family viewed through a new materialist lens. Auto/Biography Yearbook, 33–46. 
Melanson, C. C. (2023). A clash of interests: Neoliberalism in education. One World in Dialogue, 7(1), 4–8.
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. 
Nicolescu, B. (2007). Transdisciplinarity: Basarab Nicolescu talks with Russ Volckmann. Integral Review, 4, 73–90. 
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. 
Szeman, I., Beer, R., Cariou, W., Simpson, M., & Wilson, S. (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.
Wahl, H., Iwarsson, S., & Oswald, F. (2012). Aging well and the environment: Toward an integrative model and research agenda for the future. The Gerontologist, 52(3), 306–316. 
Interdisciplinary Research: A Collection of Articles. Sage Research Methods Community 
Blogs
Hirsch, P. D. (2012, June 25). A framework for integrative thinking about complex problems. Conflict and Collaboration.
Peña, E. (2017, April 14). Knowledge mobilization and interdisciplinarity: A rant. Medium.
Open Access Interdisciplinary Journals
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice
Educational Policy
Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
Interdisciplinary Cultural and Humanities Review
Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities
Interdisciplinary International Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies