Week 31: Professional Context - Crossing Boundaries
It has been interesting reading the required
readings about interdisciplinary connections, especially ‘The logic of
interdisciplinary studies’, written by Mathison and Freeman. This phrase summarises the changes and
introduction of new trends that have occurred in the New Zealand education systems
in the past ten years.
“The
push for interdisciplinarity or integration incorporates many of the trends
that have become part of the recent discussions of educational restructuring –
shared goals, flexible scheduling, site-based decision-making, collegiality,
and outcome-based assessment” (Mathison & Freeman, 1997).
This week
I’ve decided to explore a digital tool - coogle to draw a map which demonstrates my current and
potential interdisciplinary professional connections.
My interdisciplinary connection map:
My future goals are developing these skills: research, inquiry and collaboration so I am effectively facilitating 21st century learning and teaching.
I
clicked on this post about “A Conceptual Model for
Interdisciplinary Collaboration” and thought
that the table below (that is displayed in this post) does endeavour to show
what needs to happen for meaningful collaboration to occur.
Table 1. Qualifiers for a three-faceted conceptual
model for successful collaboration
|
Workplace Conditions
|
Qualities/Attitudes
|
Common Goals
|
|
§
Regular
communication
§
Standing
meetings
§
Physical
space
§
Administrative
support
|
§
Cooperative—able
to compromise
§
Equitable—respect
for roles
§
Trust—perceived
competence
§
Shared
vulnerability—safe
setting to explore, inquire & critique
§
Enthusiasm—desire
to continue collaboration
|
§
Identify
individual strengths
§ Select
conference & publication venues that “count” for both, or alternate
§Establish
research “pipeline” & philosophy
§
Articulate/update
timelines
|
Source: http://acrlog.org/2015/05/14/a-conceptual-model-for-interdisciplinary-collaboration./
The interdisciplinary connection I have we be with my teaching
colleagues as we will be doing collaborative planning and sharing via Google
Docs in Terms 3 and 4. As teaching professionals we will discuss and decide on
learning goals with students and these goals will be integrated into our teaching
and learning collaborative planning. The outcomes of the learning goals will be
shared with parents or whanau either through Google Slides or kanohi-a-kanohi
(face to face).
References:
ACRLog. (2015). A Conceptual Model for Interdisciplinary
Collaboration. Retrieved from http://acrlog.org/2015/05/14/a-conceptual-model-for-interdisciplinary-collaboration
Mathison,S.. & Freeman, M.(1997). The logic
of interdisciplinary studies. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association, Chicago, 1997. Retrieved from http://www.albany.edu/cela/reports/mathisonlogic12004.pdf
