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Exercising Quality Control in Interdisciplinary Education: Toward an Epistemologically Responsible Approach
Author(s) -
STEIN ZACHARY,
CONNELL MICHAEL,
GARDNER HOWARD
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2008.00655.x
Subject(s) - graduate education , sociology , quality (philosophy) , graduate students , control (management) , library science , media studies , management , pedagogy , philosophy , computer science , epistemology , economics
This article argues that certain philosophically devised quality control parameters should guide approaches to interdisciplinary education. We sketch the kind of reflections we think are necessary in order to produce epistemologically responsible curricula. We suggest that the two overarching epistemic dimensions of levels of analysis and basic viewpoints go a long way towards clarifying the structure of interdisciplinary validity claims. Through a discussion of how best to teach basic ideas about numeracy in Mind, Brain, and Education, we discuss what it means for an interdisciplinary curriculum to respect both the minds of students and the complexity of the subject matter.