Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Reflections on Drones as a Classroom Boundary Object

IF 2 3区工程技术 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Engineering Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI:10.1080/19378629.2019.1614006

E. Reddy, G. Hoople, A. Choi-Fitzpatrick

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In an interdisciplinary project-based course, the topic of ‘drones’ served as an essential boundary object both for the students themselves and instructors. Instructors developed the course to facilitate productive exchanges between students from schools of engineering and peace studies involved. In this critical participation paper, we use an experimental reflection and analysis method to explore the instructors’ experience with this class. We demonstrate how this boundary object both facilitated some of the most desirable outcomes related to interdisciplinary partnerships and interfered with them by making collaboration without consensus – or explicit disagreements – possible. The kinds of troublesome surprises that instructors reflect on might be understood as indicative of ecologies of ideas, priorities, and practices that students and instructors bring to the classroom. We suggest that other instructors might also benefit from reflecting on their experiences with interdisciplinarity in the way that we have here.

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实践中的跨学科:无人机作为课堂边界对象的思考

摘要在一门基于跨学科项目的课程中，“无人机”主题是学生和教师的一个重要边界对象。教员们开发了这门课程，以促进工程与和平研究学院学生之间富有成效的交流。在这篇批判性参与论文中，我们采用实验反思和分析的方法来探索教师在这门课上的经验。我们展示了这个边界对象如何促进了与跨学科伙伴关系相关的一些最理想的结果，并通过使没有共识或明确分歧的合作成为可能来干扰这些结果。教师反思的那些令人烦恼的惊喜可能被理解为学生和教师给课堂带来的思想、优先事项和实践的生态。我们建议其他讲师也可以像我们在这里一样，反思他们的跨学科经验。

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Engineering Studies ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

17.60%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Engineering Studies is an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the scholarly study of engineers and engineering. Its mission is threefold: 1. to advance critical analysis in historical, social, cultural, political, philosophical, rhetorical, and organizational studies of engineers and engineering; 2. to help build and serve diverse communities of researchers interested in engineering studies; 3. to link scholarly work in engineering studies with broader discussions and debates about engineering education, research, practice, policy, and representation. The editors of Engineering Studies are interested in papers that consider the following questions: • How does this paper enhance critical understanding of engineers or engineering? • What are the relationships among the technical and nontechnical dimensions of engineering practices, and how do these relationships change over time and from place to place?