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Food in Science, Science in Food -- Interdisciplinarity in Science/Chemistry and Home Economics Lower Secondary Curricula across Three Countries
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Fooladi, Erik C.; Tuomisto, Maiju; Haapaniemi, Janni – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Food, cooking, and eating are commonly used as contexts or legitimations to teach and communicate science. However, for teaching to have contextual credibility, the relationship between subject and context is a relevant area of study. The present contribution describes an analysis of curricula from three Nordic countries shedding light on…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Family and Consumer Sciences
"We Are What We Eat": Adopting Recipe Writing as a Boundary Object of First-Year Writing and Nutrition Courses
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Lee, Soyeon; Zhang, Shuo – Across the Disciplines, 2022
Over the recent past, interdisciplinarity has been theorized as a tool that can help teachers and researchers create new epistemological spaces in higher education. Given the emphases on vocation-oriented programs and STEM-skilled workforce education, two-year colleges have the potential to explore the development of an interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition, Nutrition
Chemistry in the Kitchen
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Tan, Verily; Crow, Leslie; Gibson, Audrey; Phillips, Cassie; Wray, Lisa; Reck, Cathrine – Science Teacher, 2019
The authors developed a lesson for teachers to integrate chemistry and culinary arts, providing students with an opportunity to participate in three-dimensional learning, engage in science and engineering practices, and apply disciplinary core content and crosscutting concepts (Krajcik et al. 2014). The project involved five classes: three…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cooking Instruction, Science Education, Engineering
The Effects of Crossdisciplinary Life Science Innovation Implemented by Students' Stimulated Strategies for PBL-STEM Self-Efficacy
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Su, King-Dow – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
This research used mixed effects to construct a PBL-STEM (problem-based learning with STEM) questionnaire with high validity and reliability. The benefits of PBL-STEM focused on cross-disciplinary and longitudinal research to analyze students' self-efficacy in life science. All 175 university students who attended this course as an elective…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Biological Sciences, Educational Innovation, Problem Based Learning
Local Strategies: Creating and Nurturing Collaborative Communities of Practice
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Bauer, Denise; Beaulieu, Elizabeth; Wobbe, Kristin – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
Creating meaningful professional development opportunities for general education faculty can be particularly challenging at professionally-focused institutions where teaching liberal arts courses is sometimes viewed merely as a service requirement. Committing to sustained professional development for general education faculty can lead to…
Descriptors: Faculty, Development, Communities of Practice, Liberal Arts
Of Models and Mechanisms: Towards an Understanding of How Theatre-Making Works as an "Intervention" in Individual Health and Wellness
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Etheridge Woodson, Stephani; Szkupinski Quiroga, Seline; Underiner, Tamara; Farid Karimi, Robert – Research in Drama Education, 2017
Growing from a multi-year and multidisciplinary research and applied arts investigative team based in North America, this essay presents a model of how performative engagements contribute to individual behavioural change in wellness practices. To be even more specific, this essay analyses and theorises the mechanisms involved in the application of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Health, Wellness, Theater Arts