Connected Science: Strategies for Integrative Learning in College

Contents

Contents foreword: The Scholarship of integrative teaching and learning \ Mary taylor huber and pat hutchings vii Part I. Connected Science: Why Integrative Learning Is Vital 1 fostering integrative Capacities for the 21st Century \ tricia a. ferrett 1 2 from Student learning to teaching foundations \ tricia a. ferrett 14 Part II. Courses That Foster Integrative Learning 3 public health and Biochemistry: Connecting Content, issues, and Values for Majors \ Matthew a. fisher 31 4 designing to Make a difference: authentic integration of professional Skills in an engineering Capstone design Course \ gregory Kremer 40 5 integrative learning in a data-rich Mathematics Classroom \ Mike Burke 53 6 navigating Wormholes: integrative learning in a first-Year field Course \ Bettie higgs 59 Part III. Structures That Support Integrative Learning 7 linking integrated Middle-School Science with literacy in australian teacher education \ david r. geelan 79 8 SCale-Up in a large introductory Biology Course \ robert Brooker, david Matthes, robin Wright, deena Wassenberg, Susan Wick, and Brett Couch 89 9 reuniting the arts and Sciences via interdisciplinary learning Communities \ Xian liu, Kate Maiolatesi, and Jack Mino 100 10 pedagogies of integration \ richard a. gale 117 vi | Contents Part IV. Broader Contexts for Integrative Learning 11 integrative Moves by novices: Crossing institutional, Course, and Student Contexts \ tricia a. ferrett and Joanne l. Stewart 143 12 facilitating and Sustaining interdisciplinary Curricula: from Theory to practice \ Whitney M. Schlegel 160 appendix: list of Key Works Used in the development of the interdisciplinary program in human Biology 175 Contributors 177 index 179 ...