Using boundary negotiating artifacts to investigate interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams
Using boundary negotiating artifacts to investigate interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams
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使用边界谈判工件来调查跨学科和多学科团队
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2011
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B. Jesiek
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K. Beddoes;M. Borrego;B. Jesiek
团队合作，特别是跨学科团队合作，越来越被认为是工程教育的重要组成部分。因此，工程教育工作者对在课程中运用和研究团队合作感兴趣。然而，他们的大部分奖学金都集中在记录学生和教师的团队合作经验以及仅描述项目和课程。对学生创建和用于管理跨学科团队协作的实际实践和工件的检查是一个尚未充分探索的研究领域。然而，此类研究在阐明团队合作如何进行方面具有很大潜力，从而指出成功合作的策略。借鉴科学技术研究 (STS) 的先前工作，并基于对跨学科研究生研究团队为期一个月的人种学研究，我们发现该团队使用边界谈判工件 (BNA) 来指导他们的工作。在本文中，我们讨论了基于边界对象文献的边界谈判工件的重要性，并提出该概念作为研究和促进跨学科研究生和本科生团队的有用框架。这个新框架有可能揭示以前在工程教育中尚未充分探索的跨学科协作与合作的各个方面。
Teamwork, and interdisciplinary teamwork in particular, are increasingly recognized as an important part of engineering education. Engineering educators have therefore taken an interest in employing and studying teamwork in their curriculum. Yet much of their scholarship has focused on documenting student and faculty experiences of teamwork and describing programs and courses only. Examinations of the actual practices and artifacts, that students create and use to manage interdisciplinary team collaborations are an underexplored research area. However, such studies hold much potential for illuminating how teamwork is undertaken, thereby pointing to strategies for successful collaborations. Drawing on prior work in Science and Technology Studies (STS), and based upon a one-month ethnographic study of an interdisciplinary graduate research team, we found that the team used boundary negotiating artifacts (BNAs) to navigate their work. In this paper, we discuss the significance of boundary negotiating artifacts—which build on boundary object literature—and propose the concept as a useful framework for investigating and facilitating interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate teams. This new framework has the potential to shed light on aspects of interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation that have previously been underexplored within engineering education.