{"id":3002,"date":"2014-03-21T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2014-03-21T12:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:33:54","slug":"conversation-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation #24: Interdisciplinarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/audio\/tlee024.mp3\">Conversation #24<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Julie Thompson Klein\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/images\/juliethompsonklein.jpg?w=625\" title=\"Julie Thompson Klein\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nDoesn't matter whether it's engineering, whether it's psychology, there isn't a single report out there that doesn't acknowledge the changing relationship of disciplines and interdisciplinary work. It's often driven by a research agenda: The disciplines are changing; their research frontiers are expanding, and so that's an important part of what a department should be attending to, but also new themes and topics are coming into the curriculum.... It's a both-and world out there, it's not an either-or world.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A conversation with Julie Thompson Klein (<a href=\"http:\/\/wayne.edu\/\">Wayne State University<\/a>) on teaching, learning and interdisciplinarity.<\/p>\n<p>Links for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/research.wayne.edu\/idre\/reprint\/change_article_012007.pdf\">Resources for Interdisciplinary Studies by Julie Thompson Klein<\/a> [PDF]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasa.net\/\">American Studies Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwsa.org\/\">National Women's Studies Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.units.muohio.edu\/aisorg\/\">Association for Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Conversation #24 Doesn't matter whether it's engineering, whether it's psychology, there isn't a single report out there that doesn't acknowledge the changing relationship of disciplines and interdisciplinary work. It's often driven by a research agenda: The disciplines are changing; their research frontiers are expanding, and so that's an important part of what a department <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Conversation #24: Interdisciplinarity\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[177],"class_list":{"0":"post-3002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-podcast","7":"tag-interdisciplinarity","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-Mq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2757,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-23\/","url_meta":{"origin":3002,"position":0},"title":"Conversation #23: Interdisciplinarity","author":"Bart Everson","date":"February 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Download Conversation #23 We're starting to move in a direction now where there is more integration of ideas across disciplines inside the classroom. 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