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Sharon Woodill, PhD

From Objects to Relationships and The Place of Interdisciplinarity

Posted on April 15, 2018August 7, 2019 by swoodill

Two ideas resonate throughout the interdisciplinary studies literature: complexity is at the heart of interdisciplinarity and an epistemology of complexity… Read more From Objects to Relationships and The Place of Interdisciplinarity

Cultivating Creativity

Posted on April 23, 2017May 14, 2017 by swoodill

Interdisciplinary Studies is about creativity, at least that’s the claim, but where is this creativity exercised? In choosing one’s career… Read more Cultivating Creativity

Making Mistakes and Moving Forward

Posted on March 12, 2017May 15, 2017 by swoodill

Learning through failure is now a staple trope of progressive pedagogy, yet it remains one of the hardest elements to… Read more Making Mistakes and Moving Forward

Teaching Interdisciplinarity

Posted on March 2, 2017April 21, 2017 by swoodill

While I have been teaching in post-secondary settings for several years now, I have not before taught Interdisciplinary Studies explicitly,… Read more Teaching Interdisciplinarity

Update to Previous

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by swoodill

A number of the issues that I note in the previous entry are identified and discussed by Coyne in this… Read more Update to Previous

The Problem and the Problems with the Problem–Notes on Chapter One

Posted on September 3, 2015October 23, 2015 by swoodill

Jerry Coyne’s recent book could not have come at a better time. The science-religion debate is out of control. In… Read more The Problem and the Problems with the Problem–Notes on Chapter One

Trust in…Whom?

Posted on March 10, 2014June 9, 2017 by swoodill

Over the last few weeks in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Situating Science has presented two installments in the national lecture series… Read more Trust in…Whom?

The War on Science and its Secular Cloak

Posted on February 25, 2014February 25, 2016 by swoodill

Recently I’ve been reading The War on Science  by Chris Turner. Turner chronicles the Harper government’s steady dismantling of Canada’s… Read more The War on Science and its Secular Cloak

Science, Evidence, and Narrative

Posted on February 9, 2014November 11, 2014 by swoodill

Science, Evidence, and Narrative I’ve heard it said that the way we see the world in some ways determines the world… Read more Science, Evidence, and Narrative

Evidence, the Death of Evidence, and Finding Some Good Questions

Posted on January 16, 2014November 11, 2014 by swoodill

The recent announcement by the Canadian Federal government of the closing and consolidation of Fisheries and Oceans libraries has the media,… Read more Evidence, the Death of Evidence, and Finding Some Good Questions

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