Background: Many disciplines use outdoor fieldwork (OFW) as an experiential learning method in higher education. Although there has been an increase in research into the pedagogical approaches of OFW, the use of OFW is contested. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to synthesize the OFW literature across a range of disciplines to identify common…

The Interdisciplinary Teacher Education (ITE) Program at Wayne State University prepares teachers for initial certification in elementary and secondary education. It also provides the initial professional training for students in special education, physical education, music, and foreign language education. This program along with art education and…

Analytical view of a major interdisciplinary experimental program. (Editor)

Two processes are identified as central to the achievement of liberal arts goals in a field setting. They are reciprocity and decentering, both implying the coordination of multiple perspectives on the experience. (Editor/LBH)

Reviews the rationale for including prevention in the clinical medicine clerkship. Summarizes current guidelines, presents examples of curricula in several medical schools, and proposes a future direction that stresses integrating teaching preventive medicine into internal medicine clerkships and across the entire four-year medical curriculum. (DB)

The Field Studies Program is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary experience in field-related education at the University of California - Berkeley begun in 1971. Self-study has generated a model of field-related education based on doing, thinking, and communicating that leads toward increased competency and consciousness. (Author/LBH)

The Program for Learning Competent Teaching is an on-site, preservice teacher training program sponsored by the Northern Arizona University's Center for Excellence in Education that attempts to incorporate more of the complexities of teaching than is possible in traditional on-campus lecture classes. The program is a cooperative effort of the…

Designed to bridge the gap between theory and application in undergraduate social sciences, the Lila Acheson Wallace School of Community Service and Public Affairs was established in 1967 at the University of Oregon. Its program is outlined including the four professional training programs and the interdisciplinary and field instruction…

Suggested are three ways that values education, judging, moral discernment, and value-guided action can be developed within higher education: organization of the curriculum to heighten sensitivity to values and enhance dexterity in using them; field study to foster ideas in action; and the environment and example of the college itself. (JMD)

This is a reprot of the genesis and evolution of an interdisciplinary health care experience for student teams in a gerontological setting. The student teams faced many of the same problems encountered by other interdisciplinary health care teams, including role definition, role negotiation, decision making, and conflict resolution. (Author)

Discussed are the strengths a field-study approach brings to undergraduate education, a model for conceptualizing a full range of field settings in the community, business, and government, and sources of strain in developing and implementing a program of non-classroom-based learning. (JMD)

The goals, techniques, and assessment of the undergraduate teaching program in psychiatry as a whole is discussed with emphasis on the third-year clerkship. The value of the program as been educational clarity, the development of a high esprit de corp among the faculty, student acceptance, and integration of psychiatry into the total medical…

Principles shaping the focus of the social work internship program at the University of Hawaii included: an interdisciplinary framework providing for faculty and student development from the Schools of Public Health, Engineering, Architecture, Business Administration, and Social Work; and total responsibility for task assignment, affording…

Four papers presented by psychology faculty members from Clemson University discuss how each person met the need for undergraduates to obtain job preparation in psychology. Topics cover industrial psychology, clinical psychology, teaching of psychology, and an interdisciplinary curriculum. (ND)

Describes the Semester at Sea Program of the Institute for Shipboard Education in which over 20,000 college students have participated over the past 30 years. The ship's geologist/geographer presented geological briefings in a daily interdisciplinary core course during 60 days at sea. He also guided field trips during 43 days ashore. Visits to…