From Surprise Parties to Mapmaking: Undergraduate Journeys toward Interdisciplinary Understanding

The authors use cognitive-constructive developmental theory as an interpretive lens to understand the patterns of experiences shared by interdisciplinary undergraduate students in interviews conducted over four years. The analyses offer insights into the developmental process of students' understanding of interdisciplinarity and themselves as interdisciplinarians.

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