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In the spring 1999, I was selected as one of twenty-eight Carnegie Scholars with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Our group of scholars was the second such group to participate in the Pew National Scholarship Program for Carnegie Scholars and the first to include interdisciplinarians.
My project as a Carnegie Scholar focused on various problems and issues associated with interdisciplinary learning in two core courses at Georgia College & State University, the IDST 2310 Fine and Applied Arts in Civilization and the IDST 2205 Global Issues in Society courses. Viewers may may read an overview of my project or watch my presentation to the Carnegie Scholars in January 2000 at Palo Alto, California. The interactive logo below right links directly to the video, in which I discuss my project goals and methodology as well as some of the research and interpretive problems I encountered.
It is my hope that this collection of course portfolios will provide others with ideas about how to approach their own projects in the scholarship of teaching, and especially with some notion of the give-and-take and the often uncertain, tenuous steps involved in developing appropriate methodology in this emergent field. In my own case, I went to the Carnegie Foundation in 1999 with firm questions and a clear idea of my project and left after my first stint questioning everything I had done and thought to date. The "results" presented here reflect the influence of the interdisciplinary brainstorming amongst the Carnegie Scholars, and my attempts to incorporate many different models of research in an effort to better understand interdisciplinary learning. My efforts to understand the learning process in my classes are ongoing, and consequently, this project is not and cannot be completed.
I dedicate this portfolio to my incredible class of Carnegie Scholars, and most especially to Anita Salem (Mathematics, Rockhurst University), Mariolina Salvatori (English, University of Pittsburgh), and Sherry Linkon (American Studies, Youngstown State University). Special thanks to Pat Hutchings, Mary Huber, Lee Schulman and others of the Carnegie Foundation for opening new worlds to me and for their inspiration, advice and support. Innumerable other people contributed to this project. Please take the time to honor their contributions by reading the credits here.
To explore the results of my project, click on any of the links to the right.
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A CASTL (Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) seed grant for academic associations provided funding for this web site. The grant was sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and The American Association of Higher Education for work under the auspices of the Association of Integrative Studies.copyright © Dr. Deborah Vess, Georgia College & State University, 2000-2001