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Call for Proposals

Association for Integrative Studies

33rd Annual Conference

October 13-16, 2011 - Grand Rapids, Michigan

Traditions and Trajectories:

Interdisciplinarity and Integrative Learning

It is essential to examine and reflect on the roots and histories of interdisciplinarity and integrative learning, with the future of our profession in mind. In this call for proposals, we challenge participants to explore this conference theme. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, and posters that address issues in the following categories:

Biographies and/or Autobiographies

Individual and group narratives involving interdisciplinarity and integrative learning, and focusing on key contributions, articles, experiences, successes, and obstacles. Who were the early contributors? What can we learn from them? Whose scholarship is essential and why? What stories need to be told? Retold? What can scholars gain from these stories and anticipate for the future of interdisciplinarity and integrative learning in higher education?

Institutional and Administrative Realities

Examples of successful or challenged integrative practices. What administrative structures have cultivated and/or curtailed integrative learning or interdisciplinary studies? What concerns and dangers do under graduate programs face? What concerns and dangers do graduate programs face? What are the best practices, programs, and structures in integrative learning and interdisciplinarity and how have they responded to challenges, concerns and dangers? What incentives, resources, and technologies are available to help new programs and scholars?

Sustainability and Teaching and Learning Models

Best curricular, co-curricular, sustainable, and service learning designs and practices. What pedagogies help foster integrative learning and interdisciplinary pursuits? What do community-based projects and collaborations have to offer? How can programs and courses help students apply their learning beyond the classroom? How can we integrate civic engagement and sustainability in and out of the classroom?

Outcomes and Assessment

What are the characteristics of interdisciplinarity and integrative learning? What are the goals and aims of integrative and/or interdisciplinary programs, and how are they assessed? How do programs or individual courses offer opportunities for students to move past fragmentation and develop meaning and purpose in their lives and careers?

Integrative and Interdisciplinary Theory and Research

Cutting edge integrative and interdisciplinary theory, method, and scholarship. Where do scholars anticipate their work heading? What ideas and developments are happening in integrative and interdisciplinary theory and praxis?

(We should be responding to all submitters by May 30)