The Window: Thinking in the Seams: Engaging Interdisciplinary Thinking - 1 views
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shared by Tony Baldasaro on 31 Jul 09
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“thinking in the seams,” thinking that merges ideas from different disciplines to generate something novel and beneficial
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“points of departure for discovering or confirming similar structures and relations in other disciplines.”
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It stitches together perspectives or modes of inquiry from two or more disciplines to explore ideas. It is thinking “in the seams.”
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According to researchers, interdisciplinary thinking often follows a sequence of mental actions: relationships between ideas within a discipline are recognized→the relationships are recognized as forming pattern(s)→the pattern(s) are decontextualized/generalized→examples of the same pattern(s) are recognized in other disciplines→ideas from one discipline “overlay” with another, generating new ideas.3
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“usable knowledge”—knowledge that “is connected and organized around important concepts” and “supports transfer (to other contexts) rather than only the ability to remember.”