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The Synergistic Classroom: Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
by Allan W. Austin • Paola Prado • Corey Campion • Aaron Angello • Paul D. Reich • Patricia Marchesi • Patrick L Hamilton • Christine Dehne • Jonathan Munson • April M Boulton • Erika Cornelius Smith • Maryann Conrad • Julia F. Klimek • Christine D Myers • Audra L Goach • Hilary Cooperman • Winston Ou • Lana A. Whited • Sharon E. Stein • Martha Barcenas-Mooradian • Amanda M. Caleb • Alicia H. Nordstrom • Tina L Hanlon • Peter Crow • Susan V Mead • Carolyn L Thomas • Delia R. Heck • Autumn Quezada-GrantAmong the many challenges confronting the liberal arts today is a fundamental disconnect between the curricula that many institutions offer and the training that many students need. Discipline-specific models of teaching and learning can underprepare students for the kinds of interdisciplinary colla... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Age And Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life
In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups. Across all advanced societies, the inequalities observed in older populations stem from structural and individual processes that differentiate the life courses of women and men and yield dist... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines
by Helga Nowotny • Barbara Prainsack • Gregory J. Downey • Aaron Panofsky • Daniel Lee Kleinman • Angela Cassidy • Ali O. Ilhan • Ayelet Kuper • Chisato Fukuda • Cyrus C.M. Mody • Dave Mcbee • Elise Paradis • Erin Leahey • Hauke Reisch • Itai Vardi • Jennifer Croissant • Laurel Smith-Doerr • Mathieu Albert • Noah Weeth Feinstein • Ryan Light • Scott Frickel • Sigrid Peterson • Timothy Sacco • Jimi AdamsInterdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (New Black Studies Series #1)
by James B. Stewart • R. Baxter Miller • Leonard Harris • Claudrena N. Harold • Pero Gaglo Dagbovie • Cornelius L. Bynum • Layli Maparyan • Keisha N. Blain • Stephanie Y. Evans • Maurice J. Hobson • Edward Onaci • Nikki M. Taylor • Derrick P. Alridge • Jeffrey Lamar Coleman • Aaron David Gresson • La TaSha Levy • Zebulon V. Miletsky • Venetria K. PattonConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. Thi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021