Location: Ponderosa Commons Oak House, Room 2012
Open to the public. No registration required.
Interdisciplinarity in Education: Discussions, Approaches, Reflections
This panel aims to address the potential benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary education, particularly when engaging with a range of methodologies, theories, pedagogies, or modes of thinking. One of the benefits of interdisciplinary education involves integrating knowledge and methods from two or more disciplines to arrive at new findings. One of the challenges of interdisciplinarity is compartmentalizing discrete, yet complementary concepts into a cohesive result. Interdisciplinarity is inherently boundary breaking and increases potential friction between knowledge production and institutional structures.
Representing a variety of perspectives within the Faculty of Education, panel members will discuss – through personal narrative, anecdote, or other integrative approaches – how we might understand, use, and develop effective models of interdisciplinary education (including transdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary, intradisciplinary, and multidisciplinary models). Each panel member will ultimately be asked to broadly answer the following question: How has the practice of interdisciplinarity affected your research or teaching in education?
Panel Members:
Dr. Jennifer Jenson, Professor, Language & Literacy Education
Dr. Dónal O’Donoghue, Professor, Curriculum & Pedagogy
Dr. Meike Wernicke, Assistant Professor, Language & Literacy Education
Dr. Sharon Stein, Assistant Professor, Educational Studies
Dr. Derek Gladwin, Assistant Professor, Language & Literacy Education (Moderator)
This talk will take place on the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the Musqueam people.