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MAIS 700: Capstone Course: Integrating your MA-IS Studies and Research (Rev. 2)
MAIS 700: Capstone Course: Integrating your MA-IS Studies and Research (Rev. 2)
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Textbook
Foshay, R. (Ed.). (2011).
Valences of interdisciplinarity: Theory, practice, pedagogy
. Athabasca University Press.
Supplementary Readings
Nicolescu, B. (2007). Transdisciplinarity: Basarab Nicolescu talks with Russ Volckmann.
Integral Review
,
4
, 73–90.
Strober, M. H. (2010).
Interdisciplinary conversations: Challenging habits of thought
. Stanford University Press.
Week 1: Interdisciplinary Thoery and Research
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, P. D. (2012, June 25).
A framework for integrative thinking about complex problems
. [Blog Post].
Week 2: Interdisciplinary Conversation
Dreyfuss, S. (2011). Something essential about interdisciplinary thinking.
Issues in Interdisciplinary Integrative Studies
,
29
, 67–83.
Week 5: Critical Voices
Sarewitz, D. (2010). Against holism. In R. Frodeman (Ed.),
The Oxford handbook of interdisciplinarity
(pp. 65–75). Oxford University Press.
Brayboy, B. M. J. (2005). Toward a tribal critical race theory in education.
The Urban Review
,
37
(5), 425–446.
Week 6: Interdisciplinary Practice
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: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning
Nikitina, S. (2006). Three strategies for interdisciplinary teaching: Contextualizing, conceptualizing, and problem‐centring.
Journal of Curriculum Studies
,
38
(3), 251–271.
Week 8: Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
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.
Week 9: Interdisciplinary Humanities
Szeman, I., Beer, R., & 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.
Please read pages 1–32.
Week 10: Interdisciplinary Integrations
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.
Eportfolio Writing Prompt
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.