Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar on Magic, Religion, and the Origins of Science: A ‘Pieces-to-Picture’ Approach
Interdisciplinary teaching has been advocated as a means to foster cooperation between traditionally separate fields and broaden students’ perspectives in the classroom. We explored the pedagogical difficulties of interdisciplinary team teaching through a first-year seminar in magic, religion, and t...
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| author | Melati Nungsari Maia Christine Dedrick Shaily Patel |
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| description | Interdisciplinary teaching has been advocated as a means to foster cooperation between traditionally separate fields and broaden students’ perspectives in the classroom. We explored the pedagogical difficulties of interdisciplinary team teaching through a first-year seminar in magic, religion, and the origins of science. Although many accounts in the literature suggest a more cohesive approach to interdisciplinary teaching, we first introduced the separate fields, their methodologies, and limitations before combining the insights from all three fields to analyze case studies relating to the main themes of the course. In this case study, we reflect on how this ‘pieces-to-picture’ method reduced student confusion when confronted with several disciplines in our classroom. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dbe85fd3d5e8419ab3ca38b8126749922022-12-22T03:43:17ZengIndiana University Office of Scholarly PublishingJournal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1527-93162017-03-0117110.14434/v17i1.19772Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar on Magic, Religion, and the Origins of Science: A ‘Pieces-to-Picture’ ApproachMelati Nungsari0Maia Christine Dedrick1Shaily Patel2Butler UniversityThe University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInterdisciplinary teaching has been advocated as a means to foster cooperation between traditionally separate fields and broaden students’ perspectives in the classroom. We explored the pedagogical difficulties of interdisciplinary team teaching through a first-year seminar in magic, religion, and the origins of science. Although many accounts in the literature suggest a more cohesive approach to interdisciplinary teaching, we first introduced the separate fields, their methodologies, and limitations before combining the insights from all three fields to analyze case studies relating to the main themes of the course. In this case study, we reflect on how this ‘pieces-to-picture’ method reduced student confusion when confronted with several disciplines in our classroom.https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/19772TeachingInterdisciplinaryTeam-Teaching |
| spellingShingle | Melati Nungsari Maia Christine Dedrick Shaily Patel Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar on Magic, Religion, and the Origins of Science: A ‘Pieces-to-Picture’ Approach Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Teaching Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching |
| title | Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar on Magic, Religion, and the Origins of Science: A ‘Pieces-to-Picture’ Approach |
| title_full | Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar on Magic, Religion, and the Origins of Science: A ‘Pieces-to-Picture’ Approach |
| title_fullStr | Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar on Magic, Religion, and the Origins of Science: A ‘Pieces-to-Picture’ Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar on Magic, Religion, and the Origins of Science: A ‘Pieces-to-Picture’ Approach |
| title_short | Team Teaching an Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar on Magic, Religion, and the Origins of Science: A ‘Pieces-to-Picture’ Approach |
| title_sort | team teaching an interdisciplinary first year seminar on magic religion and the origins of science a pieces to picture approach |
| topic | Teaching Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching |
| url | https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/19772 |
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