Interdisciplinary learning: Process and outcomes

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-111

  Ivanitskaya, Lana ^a,b   Clark, Deborah ^a   Montgomery, George ^c   Primeau, Ronald ^a,c  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CMU's Center for Research on Adult Learning

^c Department of English ^*

Author keywords

Critical thinking; Epistemology; Interdisciplinary learning; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944447246     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021105309984     Document Type: Review

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