Dear GEP Colleagues,
Thank you to those who provided such valuable suggestions for readings on interdisciplinary collaboration. I have compiled the responses below along with the names of the GEP-ed participants who kindly brought these to my attention. With best wishes, Paul Steinberg (Recommended by Mike Maniates, Yale-NUS College, Singapore) Charles Duhigg, What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team, New York Times, February 28, 2016. (Recommended by Michele Betsill, Colorado State University) Mattor, Katherine, Michele Betsill, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Theresa Jedd, Faith Sternlieb, Patrick Bixler, Matthew Luizza, Antony S. Cheng, and Environmental Governance Working Group. "Transdisciplinary research on environmental governance: a view from the inside." Environmental science & policy 42 (2014): 90-100. (Recommended by Syma Ebbin, University of Connecticut) SA Ebbin. 2020. Immersing the arts: Integrating the arts into ocean literacy. Parks Stewardship Forum, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Place-Based Conservation Volume 36, Issue 3. SA Ebbin. 2020. Humanizing the Seas: A Case for Integrating the Arts and Humanities into Ocean Literacy and Stewardship. Parks Stewardship Forum, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Place-Based Conservation, Volume 36, Issue 3. (Recommended by both Leeann Sullivan, Colby College and Jonathan Rosenberg, Illinois Institute of Technology) Brown Rebekah, R., Deletic Ana, and Wong Tony H. F. Interdisciplinarity. "How to catalyse collaboration." Nature 515 (2015): 315-317. (Recommended by Christie Nicoson, Lund University) Mobjörk, Malin, Camilla Berglund, Mikael Granberg, and Magnus Johansson. 2020. “Sustainable Development and Cross-Disciplinary Research Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Learning.” Högre Utbildning 10 (1): 76. (Recommended by Benjamin Hofmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) Lisa Deutsch, Brian Belcher, Rachel Claus, Sabine Hoffmann (2021). Leading inter- and transdisciplinary research: Lessons from applying theories of change to a strategic research program, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 120, Pages 29-41. Pohl, C.; Thompson Klein, J.; Hoffmann, S.; Mitchell, C.; Fam, D. (2021) Conceptualising transdisciplinary integration as a multidimensional interactive process, Environmental Science and Policy, 118, 18-26, (Recommended by Alastair Iles, University of California Berkeley) Gunilla Oberg, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies: A Primer 1st Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Lélé, Sharachchandra, and Richard B. Norgaard. "Practicing interdisciplinarity." BioScience 55, no. 11 (2005): 967-975. (From a syllabus circulated on the AESS forum, forwarded courtesy of Christopher Jeffords, Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Owens, K., V. Eno, J. Abrams, & D. Bedny. Comic-Con: Can Comics of the Constitution Enable Meaningful Learning in Political Science? PS: Political Science and Politics 53, no.1 (2019): 161-166. On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 7:20 PM Paul Steinberg <steinb...@g.hmc.edu> wrote: > Dear GEP Colleagues, > > Can anyone recommend a well-written article that provides practical tips > on how to engage in interdisciplinary collaborations? > > I am on a committee designing a new required course on "social impact" at > Harvey Mudd College, which consists of STEM majors pursuing a well-rounded > education including the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. > > As the folks on this list-serve know well, to have a positive impact on > the world requires collaboration across social and professional > boundaries. I would like to assign one or more readings (or other > instructional media) that would be appropriate for advanced > undergraduates. We already have solid readings on community engagement > strategies. > > If you know of excellent materials that would perhaps not be ideal for > students, those could still provide useful content for associated lectures > and discussions. > > Thank you in advance for any leads. Following GEP-ed norms, kindly reply > to me rather than to the whole group, and I will compile the replies and > share them out in short order. > > With best wishes, > > Paul Steinberg > > Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy > Malcolm Lewis Chair in Sustainability and Society > Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts > Harvey Mudd College > http://www.hmc.edu/steinberg > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CA%2BivBnHD7YHEAyd_K4hKn47WBRAF4sYLLQARJO1LSfBP2HVufA%40mail.gmail.com.
