The Role of Buddhist Studies in Fostering Metadisciplinary Conversations and Improving Pedagogical Collaborations

Salguero, C. Pierce (著)

作者

Salguero, C. Pierce (著)

出處題名

Religions

卷期

v.12 n.1

出版日期

2021.01

出版者

MDIP

出版者網址

https://www.mdpi.com/

出版地

Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士]

資料類型

期刊論文=Journal Article

使用語言

英文=English

附註項

This article belongs to the Special Issue Teaching in Buddhist Studies

關鍵詞

metadisciplinary; metadisciplinarity; interdisciplinary; interdisciplinarity; multidisciplinary; multidisciplinarity; collaboration; Buddhist studies; integrative studies; general education; art

摘要

Buddhist studies has been at the center of a number of pedagogical experiments that have emerged on my campus over the last five years in response to Penn State University’s general education reform introducing an integrative studies requirement. The first half of this paper introduces two of these interdisciplinary collaborations. I discuss the structure and goals of these two courses and detail how I integrated Buddhist Studies into the design of each. In the second half of the paper, I describe how the practice of what I call “metadisciplinarity” can help to avoid some of the pitfalls commonly faced in interdisciplinary collaborations. I discuss both how to engage in metadisciplinary reflection and communication and the strengths that Buddhist studies scholars can bring to this kind of pedagogical collaboration based on some core features of our field.

1. Collaboration #1: A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary Exploration of Visualization
2. Collaboration #2: A Cluster of Linked Courses on “the Self”
3. Discussion: Moving from Multi- to Inter- to Metadisciplinarity
4. What Does Buddhist Studies Bring to a Metadisciplinary Conversation?
5. Conclusion: Looking Forward

ISSN

20771444 (E)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12010001

點閱次數

174

建檔日期

2021.11.15

更新日期

2023.06.19