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Interdisciplinary Knowledge for Teaching: A Model for Epistemic Support in Elementary Classrooms

  • Lilly, Sarah;Chiu, Jennifer L.;McElhaney, Kevin W.
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.137-173
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    • 2021
  • Research and national standards, such as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in the United States, promote the development and implementation of K-12 interdisciplinary curricula integrating the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM+CS). However, little research has explored how teachers provide epistemic support in interdisciplinary contexts or the factors that inform teachers' epistemic support in STEM+CS activities. The goal of this paper is to articulate how interdisciplinary instruction complicates epistemic knowledge and resources needed for teachers' instructional decision-making. Toward these ends, this paper builds upon existing models of teachers' instructional decision-making in individual STEM+CS disciplines to highlight specific challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary approaches on classroom epistemic supports. First, we offer considerations as to how teachers can provide epistemic support for students to engage in disciplinary practices across mathematics, science, engineering, and computer science. We then support these considerations using examples from our studies in elementary classrooms using integrated STEM+CS curriculum materials. We focus on an elementary school context, as elementary teachers necessarily integrate disciplines as part of their teaching practice when enacting NGSS-aligned curricula. Further, we argue that as STEM+CS interdisciplinary curricula in the form of NGSS-aligned, project-based units become more prevalent in elementary settings, careful attention and support needs to be given to help teachers not only engage their students in disciplinary practices across STEM+CS disciplines, but also to understand why and how these disciplinary practices should be used. Implications include recommendations for the design of professional learning experiences and curriculum materials.

Constructing Convergence Knowledge on Velocity with Family Resemblance Approach (가족 유사성 접근법을 적용한 물체의 빠르기 주제의 융합지식 구성 연구)

  • Lee, Sooah;Jhun, Youngseok
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.188-205
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    • 2018
  • For STEM education science teachers usually choose topics which are related to both science and other disciplinary contents. Nevertheless it is not clear for the teachers to adopt what kind of criteria for their choices. Interdisciplinary teaching is not a mixture of science content with another one from different disciplines as resources for the content teaching. Instead the criteria and perspectives for the integration need to be clearly defined. In this study we investigated how to integrate science and other disciplines in terms of interdisciplinary teaching. Family resemblance approach by Wittgenstein, recently revised by Erduran and Dagher, was applied to comparative analysis of science, math, and physical education curriculum documents in Korea. Aim and value, methodological rules and methods, knowledge, and activities in each discipline were compared and analyzed with the view of FRA. Results of the study described alternative criteria of how to find appropriate topics for interdisciplinary teaching.

Multidisciplinary Team Research as an Innovation Engine in Knowledge-Based Transition Economies and Implication for Asian Countries -From the Perspective of the Science of Team Science

  • Lee, Yong-Gil
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.49-63
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    • 2013
  • This work identifies the key factors influencing the success of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and trans-disciplinary R&D projects in transition economies by integrating knowledge management, organizational, inter/intra-collaboration (open-innovation), and leadership perspectives, while also addressing the perspective of the science of team science, which is an integrative approach to R&D. This is followed by providing the major sub-constructs of team science and policy implications to better facilitate multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary R&D projects in knowledge-based transition economies.

A Study on the Interdisciplinary Structure of Individual Research (개인연구의 학제특성에 관한 연구)

  • 송충한
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.16-27
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    • 1999
  • This paper intends to clear up the conte31t of the interdisciplinary nature of individual researches. First, the interdisciplinary character of individual research was analyzed. Approximately 40% of individual research projects supported by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation has the interdisciplinary nature. Second, there are close connections among research fields in individual research projects. Every research field needs the inflow of knowledge from other fields and supports other research fields as well. The interrelation among various research fields indicates the importance of the balanced development in all science and engineering fields.

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Data Technology: New Interdisciplinary Science & Technology (데이터 기술: 지식창조를 위한 새로운 융합과학기술)

  • Park, Sung-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.294-312
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    • 2010
  • Data Technology (DT) is a new technology which deals with data collection, data analysis, information generation from data, knowledge generation from modelling and future prediction. DT is a newly emerged interdisciplinary science & technology in this 21st century knowledge society. Even though the main body of DT is applied statistics, it also contains management information system (MIS), quality management, process system analysis and so on. Therefore, it is an interdisciplinary science and technology of statistics, management science, industrial engineering, computer science and social science. In this paper, first of all, the definition of DT is given, and then the effects and the basic properties of DT, the differences between IT and DT, the 6 step process for DT application, and a DT example are provided. Finally, the relationship among DT, e-Statistics and Data Mining is explained, and the direction of DT development is proposed.

The Study of Shop Floor Control System Under CIM Environment (CIM 환경에서의 현장관리시스템)

  • 남호기
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.21 no.46
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    • pp.197-206
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    • 1998
  • In recent years there has been a tremendous upsurge of interest in Shop Floor Control System (SFCS) design and analysis. We reviewed current computer-aided shop floor control system. It is concluded that current methodologies support, in a very restricted sense, these planning, scheduling, and monitoring activities and that enhanced performance can be achieved via an integrated approach. In this paper we present an interdisciplinary approach to the development and installing of sophisticated shop floor control systems. Interdisciplinary design will form the basis of designing SFCS in new knowledge intensive era. Interdisciplinary design means more than just applying knowledge from other domains, such as psychology and organization science to design of SFCS. The interdisciplinary approach is verified by an illustrative case study.

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Information Systems in Interdisciplinary Research: Analytic and Holistic Ways to Access Information Science Knowledge

  • Engerer, Volkmar P.
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.6-22
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    • 2019
  • The paper explores how information science knowledge can be used systematically in digital, interdisciplinary research settings and gives a conceptual analysis of the relationship between information science knowledge as donor and other research as receiver in an interdisciplinary project environment. The validity of the approach is demonstrated by the author's work on the project "The Primacy of Tense: A. N. Prior Now and Then." The study proposes a hybrid approach, combining analysis and synthesis. The analytical component identifies information systems, assigns an information system type to them, and accesses the information science knowledge associated with that type. The synthetic part focuses on the connections between information systems according to the receiver discipline's practices. The paper makes explicit the actions of experienced information professionals, thereby making their expertise accessible to others. The analytical and synthetic strategies are explained by linking them to two modes of researchers in the receiver discipline, how they act as researchers and what they know about it. The paper offers information professionals concrete assistance with identification of the appropriate strategy for accessing professional knowledge and taking appropriate actions and development decisions.

A Fundamental Study for 8 Constitution Medicine Diagnosis Expert System Development (8체질(體質) 진단(診斷) 전문가(專門家) 시스템 개발을 위한 기초연구(基礎硏究))

  • Shin, Yong-Sup;Park, Young-Bae;Park, Young-Jae;Kim, Min-Yong;Lee, Sang-Chul;Oh, Hwan-Sup
    • The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.25-47
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    • 2007
  • Background and Purpose: There was seldom study about method that diagnose 8 Constitution beside method of pulse diagnosis in 8 Constitution Medicine. Objectives: This study is to make out check list for 8 Constitution Medicine Diagnosis Expert System Development used CBR(Case based Reasoning). Methods: Review of literatures about special quality element of 8 Constitution and supplement learning advice of 8 Constitution Medicine Experts constructed knowledge base. And then, knowledge base divided through AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process), and made out check list with this. Results: Knowledge base based on special quality element of 8 Constitution was divided by 5 greate classification and 25 bisection kind, and check list consisted of 251 item was made out through this. Conclusion: Based on this research, cases necessary to make 8 Constitution Medicine Diagnosis Expert System can be gathered through check list, and further study for 8 Constitution Medicine Diagnosis Expert System Development used CBR(Case based Reasoning) is needed to supplement this research.

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Designing an Interdisciplinary Learning Environment for Conservatory Students: Using the Liberal Arts to Expand Education and Better Support Performance Interpretation

  • Auh, Yoonil;Shin, Yeon Sook
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2014
  • This paper discusses designing an interdisciplinary learning environment to promote learning of the liberal arts for advanced music students in order to expand the boundaries of their education experience beyond the technical mastery of their musical instruments. The paper discusses the utilization of salient features of information, communications, and technology and the use of instructional theory to promote the understanding of how individual pieces of music can be connected to knowledge of the context in which they were created to support the understanding of the relationship between experience in the world and musical composition.

A Methodology of Automated Analysis and Qualitative Assessment of Legislation and Court Decisions

  • Trofimov, Egor;Metsker, Oleg;Kopanitsa, Georgy
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.229-235
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to substantiate an interdisciplinary methodology for automated analysis and qualitative assessment of legislation and court decisions. The development of this kind of methodology will make it possible to fill a number of methodological gaps in various research areas, including law effectiveness assessment and legal monitoring. We have defined a methodology based on the interdisciplinary principles and tools. In general, it should be noted that even at the level of qualitative assessment made with the use of the methodology described above, the accumulation of knowledge about the relationship between legal objectives, indicators and computer methods of their identification can reduce the role of expert knowledge and subjective factor in the process of assessment, planning, forecasting and control over the state of legislation and law enforcement. Automation of intellectual processes becomes inevitable in a digital society, but, releasing experts from routine work, simultaneously reorients it to development of interdisciplinary methods and control over their application.