Teaching Stream Restoration: Experiences from Interdiscipinary Studio Instruction

Against an increasingly compartmentalized educational landscape, we have heard urgent calls for new modes of teaching and learning. In this light, educators from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds turned to transdisciplinarity and the arts for a possible response. The educational initiatives being developed and the related literature are situated across a wide range of themes, disciplines, and methodologies. The fragmented nature of the academic discussion inhibits our capacity to think through the implications of mobilizing the concept of transdisciplinarity within the arts and education. This study addresses the lack of an overview by conducting a systematic review of the literature characterized by a triangular interest in higher education, transdisciplinarity, and the arts. The documents under review amount to 458 unique scientific papers. In our results, we present a metaphorical scale – moving from buzzwords to a theoretically delineated usage – to make sense of the use and conceptualization of transdisciplinarity and we introduce three main ways how the arts are part of transdisciplinary educational compositions. In bringing together literature on education, the arts, and transdisciplinarity, we shed light on relevant similarities between thinking and doing that too often operates in isolation. As such, we aim to facilitate opportunities for mutual learning and present an improved vantage point from which to consider how decisions regarding particular conceptualizations and positionalities feed into our artistic and educational practices.

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“…There were two minor deviations to this trend. Kondolf et al. (2013) mentioned transdisciplinary in the abstract as well as in their keywords.…”

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“…There were two minor deviations to this trend. Kondolf et al (2013) mentioned transdisciplinary in the abstract as well as in their keywords. Penaluna and Penaluna (2009) mentioned transdisciplinary in their title, abstract, and keywords.…”

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Higher education, the arts, and transdisciplinarity: A systematic review of the literature

Baalen

Groot

Noordegraaf-Eelens

2021

Research in Education

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“…These skills allow students to work productively in groups with interdisciplinary members including other students, community, non-profit, and government groups to improve understanding of ecological issues (Purcell et al, 2007). Kondolf, Mozingo, Kullmann, McBride, and Anderson (2013) studied a project-based college class that developed a master plan for local stream restoration. Results indicated the experience gave students a sense of real-world accomplishment, an opportunity to apply knowledge of broader issues to a specific individual site, and the ability to work together in teams to increase learning.…”

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Student Outcomes of Eco-Restoration Service-Learning Experiences in Urban Woodlands

Knackmuhs

Farmer

Reynolds

2016

Journal of Experiential Education

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Service learning with ecological restoration projects can positively affect participants’ attitudes, behaviors, and learning, but little is known about the longevity of these effects. Furthermore, urban green spaces are an understudied, yet increasingly important, context for eco-restoration service learning. This study examined the persistence of student outcomes of eco-restoration service-learning experiences in an urban woodland. Undergraduate courses from the Departments of Biology and Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies at Indiana University partnered with the Bloomington Urban Woodlands Project (BUWP) to restore native woodland habitat and conduct public outreach. Phenomenological analysis of student interviews demonstrated that service-learning experiences improved learning outcomes and encouraged and reinforced pro-environmental attitudes up to 14 months later. Results also demonstrate the applicability of an environmental interpretation behavior change model to college-level instruction.

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Taking it to the city: urban-placed pedagogies in Detroit and Roxbury

Peterson

2017

J Environ Stud Sci

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Teaching Stream Restoration: Experiences from Interdiscipinary Studio Instruction

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Higher education, the arts, and transdisciplinarity: A systematic review of the literature

Higher education, the arts, and transdisciplinarity: A systematic review of the literature

Student Outcomes of Eco-Restoration Service-Learning Experiences in Urban Woodlands

Taking it to the city: urban-placed pedagogies in Detroit and Roxbury

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