This article examines newly introduced eccentricity topological descriptors that are used to analyze the structures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The purpose is to identify structural components that have a significant impact on physicochemical properties. Regression analysis applies to find potential correlation between different drugs…

Purpose: This conceptual paper aims to interrogate the current epistemological and cross-cultural approaches used to conceptualize climate change (CC) education, to critically point out ineffective approaches and false assumptions, and to propose practical suggestions that may support the development of a defensible and well-argued CC curriculum.…

Work produced by community-engaged scholars often spans many genres from exhibitions to toolkits. Yet, our institutional structures often preassign value to deliverables produced from our community partnerships that align with academic genres, like the journal article or monograph. These structures can produce tension for the community scholar…

This paper makes a theoretical contribution to the discussion of interdisciplinary knowledge in curriculum and research. As a challenge to much of the Mode 2 thesis concerned only with the importance of knowledge being socially relevant, this paper demonstrates how a Bernsteinian approach to interdisciplinarity relates to the internal…

Nowadays, it is essential to promote an interdisciplinary approach in classrooms, integrating disciplines such as biology and mathematics. This necessitates familiarity with specific problem-solving practices employed by the expert community, such as mathematical modelling. This perspective piece explores a mathematical modelling practice to…

Communication scholars have significantly advanced knowledge across various subjects and in basic course classrooms, yet face obstacles in conveying their importance to students and wider communities. Challenges like COVID-19 disruptions, inadequate teacher pipelines, and limited diversity in education hinder interdisciplinary communication,…

What follows is a manifesto to substantiate four theses. "First," science and science education are not what they purport to be and require recategorization as technoscience and technoscience education. "Second," technoscience and technoscience education are constituted in the pernicious whiteness of coloniality and need to be…

This article explores and develops possible additional understandings of the term "artistic citizenship" as: 1) a lens to promote critical reflection; 2) a developing inclusive artistic identity; and 3) action for change. First, I provide a general overview of artistic citizenship in order to familiarize the reader with its current…

Although today the importance of interdisciplinarity is widely recognized and the associated philosophical reflection is consolidating into an autonomous field of research, there is still no adequate understanding of what interdisciplinary projects consist of, nor are there clear agreements on how to execute them. Here we propose that the concept…

The independence of research is a key strategic issue of modern societies. Dealing with it appropriately poses legal, economic, political, social and cultural problems for society, which have been studied by the corresponding disciplines and are increasingly the subject of reflexive discourses of scientific communities. Unfortunately, problems of…

Dominant approaches to research quality rest on the assumption that academic peers are the only relevant stakeholders in its assessment. In contrast, impact assessment frameworks recognize a large and heterogeneous set of actors as stakeholders. In transdisciplinary research non-academic stakeholders are actively involved in all phases of the…

We discuss opportunities to integrate STEM across both formal and informal settings. Our reflections begin with looking back to "Making Science Matter: Collaborations Between Informal Science Education Organizations and Schools," an influential report published by the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) in 2010.…

In this article, I explore the philosophical foundations of critical realism and its application in mixed methods research. Critical realism, a robust ontological framework, is pivotal for understanding complex phenomena that span across disciplinary boundaries. It introduces a stratified ontology that recognizes distinct layers of reality, each…

This article examines the question of the purpose and benefit of professionalization of student affairs. We discuss how student affairs is positioned and positions itself at the "third space," in the intersection of administration, management, and the teaching and learning of students. In addition, the student affairs domain often…

It is crucial for engineers to anticipate the socio-ethical impacts of emerging technologies. Such acts of anticipation are thoroughly normative and should be cultivated in engineering ethics education. In this paper we ask: 'how do we anticipate the socio-ethical implications of emerging technologies responsibly?' And 'how can such responsible…