http://kmhswiki.kon.org/ 2012-02-07T00:05:31-06:00 http://kmhswiki.kon.org/ http://kmhswiki.kon.org/lib/tpl/sxs/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-26T14:32:30-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:an_annotated_bibliography&rev=1327609950&do=diff An Annotated Bibliography of Information Related to Integration in the Human Sciences Armstrong, F.H. (1980). The Journal of General Education, 32(11), 52-63. Integration Connection: This paper discusses ways that interdisciplinarity benefits university faculty and suggests ways to encourage interdisciplinarity. Armstrong Annotation text/html 2012-01-26T14:18:59-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:maccleave_annotation&rev=1327609139&do=diff MacCleave, A. (2005). Research across disciplines: A cultural perspective Kappa Omicron Nu Forum, 16(2). text/html 2012-01-18T13:04:17-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:bubolz_and_sontag_annotation&rev=1326913457&do=diff Bubolz, M. & Sontag, S. (1988). Journal of Home Economics and Consumer Studies, 12 (1)1-14. Bubolz and Sontag assert their commitment to integration as a basic premise (p.2) of their perspective throughout this discussion as they present the assumptions, meaning and issues that ground a discussion of integration in the profession\\, a profession they refer to as human ecology. text/html 2012-01-18T12:51:38-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:horn_annotation&rev=1326912698&do=diff Horn, M.J. (1988, Winter). Journal of Home Economics, 80,(4) 28-31. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service # EJ383435) Retrieved on March 16, 2009, from the Home Economics Archive available at <http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/> Horn's discussion traced some of the changes she had seen during the 25 years she had been a home economics professional at the time this article was written. She focused specifically on the impact of specialization on the preparation of home economists and the drive… text/html 2012-01-18T11:31:44-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:horn_and_nickols_annotation&rev=1326907904&do=diff Horn, M.J. & Nickols, S.Y. (1982, September). Home Economics Research Journal, 11(1)9-14. ERIC Document No. EJ267925. Horn and Nickols begin this discussion by pointing to the central place of an interdisciplinary focus in professional practice to resolve problems of families as the profession began. They then move to one of the problems the profession was facing at the time that the article was written: the influx of areas of specialization into the profession. The problem with specializ… text/html 2012-01-13T16:23:38-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:brown_1993_annotation&rev=1326493418&do=diff Brown, M. (1993)Philosophical studies in home Economics in the United States: basic ideas by which home economists understand themselves. East Lansing, MI: College of Human Ecology, Michigan State University. Chapter 6 of this volume, Home Economics as Interdisciplinary (pp. 229-274), is dedicated to a discussion of the place of interdisciplinarity and integration in home economics. She begins her tracing of this theme in the profession at the 1902 Lake Placid Conference where the subject mat… text/html 2012-01-10T14:29:24-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:brown_and_paolucci_annotation&rev=1326227364&do=diff Brown, M. & Paolucci, B. (1979). Home economics: A definition. Washington, DC: The American Home Economics Association. This document, commissioned by the American Home Economics Association, was written to explicate what Brown and Paolucci viewed as a definition of the profession of home economics at that time. These authors defined home economics as a profession with a human service mission. On page 23 of the document, the mission of the profession is stated as one to enable families … text/html 2012-01-10T13:55:54-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:boyer_annotation&rev=1326225354&do=diff Boyer, E. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate.Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. ERIC Document No. ED 326149. Retrieved on January 9,2012, from <http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED326149.pdf> This report was written by Boyer in behalf of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Priorities for undergraduate education being debated throughout the nation. Boyer indicates that debate centered on the issue of faculty time. W… text/html 2012-01-09T13:53:42-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:barab_and_landa_annotation&rev=1326138822&do=diff Barab, S. A., & Landa, A. (1997, March). Educational Leadership, 54(6), 52–58. Retrieved on January 9, 2012 from <http://lacunagames.org/research/onlinemanu/papers/edleader-anchor.pdf> To help students address real world problems, Barab and Landa assert that students need curriculum units that are problem-centered; interdisciplinary; presented in an interactive, cooperative format; and appeal to a multitude of students. The authors discuss their work with the development of interdisciplinar… text/html 2012-01-09T13:20:08-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:belck_annotation&rev=1326136808&do=diff Belck, N. (1986, June). Specialization without integration is inadequate education. The Distaff, 52, 13. Belck begins by indicating that integration has been a focus of home economics since the profession began. She notes, however, that the then-present controversy surrounding the place of specialization in the profession was occurring within the context of an academic environment outside the profession concerned about the impact of specialization on students' general education. Integratio… text/html 2012-01-06T11:53:40-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:mcgregor_annotation&rev=1325872420&do=diff McGregor, S. (2011). Home economics as an integrated, holistic system: Revisiting Bubolz and Sontag’s (1988) human ecology approach. International Journal of Consumer Studies,35(1), 26-34. Dr. McGregor's discussion, in which she revisits the notion of human ecology as the basis for integration in professional practice, is based on the work of Bubolz and Sontag (1988). r McGregor is an integrationist who seeks to illustrate the value of embracing the notion of home economics as an integrated,… text/html 2012-01-06T10:50:55-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:weddle_annotation&rev=1325868655&do=diff Weddle, K.G. (1986, June). Integration in home economics: Implications for the development of undergraduate core curricula. The Distaff, 52, 6. Dr. Weddle outlines an approach to undergraduate curricula that can help students become integrationists in their practice. He does not believe that placing students in classes with specialists will necessarily help these students become integrationists unless connections are made and modeled in these courses. On the second page of this discussion… text/html 2012-01-03T13:11:37-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:awbrey_scott_vincenti_annotation&rev=1325617897&do=diff Awbrey, S.M., Scott, D.K. & Vincenti, V. (1997). In P. Ralston & V. Vincenti (Eds.), Teaching in land-grant and state universities: New perspectives in human science [Monograph]. Washington, DC: Board on Human Sciences, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. text/html 2012-01-03T11:15:26-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:vincenti_1986_-_1_annotation&rev=1325610926&do=diff Vincenti, V. B. (1986, June). Integration in the professional preparation of home economists. The Distaff, 52 (2), 1. This introduction to the final issue of Omicron Nu's, The Distaff, highlights articles featured in the issue. Vincenti begins by noting the controversy that existed at that time regarding whether or not it was the goal of college home economics-based programs to prepare their students to be integrators rather than specialists. She elaborates by identifying three groups, th… text/html 2012-01-03T10:25:57-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:the_foundation_coalition_annotation&rev=1325607957&do=diff The Foundation Coalition. (n.d.) Curriculum integration - Students linking ideas across disciplines.www.foundationcoalition.org/home/keycomponents/.../intro.html This brief article describes curriculum integration as “restructuring learning activities to help students build connections between topics.” It is indicates that these connections help students transfer and apply learning in “multiple contexts.” text/html 2011-12-14T13:00:22-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:definitions&rev=1323889222&do=diff GLOSSARY OF TERMS RELATED TO INTEGRATION Definitions: When different disciplines cooperate to address a particular problem. One example might be economists, social workers, urban planners, nutritionists, and other social scientists who collaborate on issues of poverty. Each discipline or field contributes its knowledge to address the problem but no effort is made to create new patterns of integrated knowledge. The contributions remain separate or parallel (MacCleave, 2005). text/html 2011-11-17T14:47:26-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:media_productions&rev=1321562846&do=diff Interdisciplinary Teaching. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDEcX4pj89A> Interdisciplinarity: Challenges of Translation and Co-existence was the student round table from PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES OF POSSIBILITY: Re-imagining Spaces in Critical Times, the 2nd annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Guelph, November 6-7, 2009. Part I: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_lNSIPLd30&feature=related> Part II: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEVmiUqRgEs&feature=related> text/html 2011-11-17T14:22:10-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:a_clearinghouse_of_resources&rev=1321561330&do=diff Associations: Association for Integrative Studies <http://www.units.muohio.edu/aisorg/> Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change <http://www.abortionresearch.us/> Society for Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.sis-group.org.uk/> text/html 2011-11-17T13:56:28-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:fogarty_annotation&rev=1321559788&do=diff Fogarty, R. (1991, October). Educational Leadership, 49(2) 61-65. Fogarty describes and illustrates graphically ten ways that educators may integrate curriculum. These approaches to integration run a spectrum: From approaches housed within a specific discipline to those that involve integration within learners themselves. The ten approaches include: text/html 2011-11-17T11:02:10-06:00 benlumom http://kmhswiki.kon.org/doku.php?id=integration-by-design:armstrong_annotation&rev=1321549330&do=diff Armstrong, F.H. (1980). The Journal of General Education, 32(11), 52-63. This discussion focuses on interdisciplinarity in faculty development in higher education. Armstrong suggests that interdisciplinarity changes the way that knowledge is organized as boundaries between disciplines are eliminated. He suggests three factors that contribute to success in interdisciplinary interaction (p. 52):