International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 2, Number 1, January 2008

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Book Review

Excerpt

Integrative learning:  Mapping the terrain
Mary Taylor Huber and Pat Hutchings
(Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2004)

In my own past public school teaching experiences, interdisciplinary learning, thematic instruction, and inquiry approaches all provided ways for students to mesh ideas across disciplines and sign systems with a complex gelling of ideas and knowledge building. Taking these ideas another step further, Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain offers detailed suggestions for how integrated knowledge building could look in the college or university setting. Mary Taylor Huber and Pat Hutchings are scholars at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In this work, they offer a plausible and viable argument for college and university faculties who believe integrative learning is an important consideration for the complex curricular changes higher education faces in the coming century.

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Renita Schmidt
Furman University
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
renita.schmidt@furman.edu

I am an Assistant Professor of Education at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.  After a successful career teaching elementary students in rural Iowa schools, I completed a doctoral program in Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Iowa in 2005. Today, I teach elementary literacy courses to undergraduate and graduate students in Furman’s education department and pursue my research interests in children’s literature and the politics of literacy. Website:  http://facweb.furman.edu/~rschmidt

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