The Kantian Effect: a metaphor and paradigm linking intertextuality and interdisciplinarity through four dialogic principles¶

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Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 3 studies (3 theoretical), q1–q2 · 0 of 3 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The Kantian Effect is the article's proposed metaphor for the scholarship of integration and a paradigm for reimagining interdisciplinarity. It characterizes "the constructivism and intertextuality evident across the disciplines" that Kant separates architectonically and Bakhtin reconnects dialogically. The article articulates four guiding principles: language and dialogue create unity out of differences; words, texts, genres, and disciplines integrate through dialogic processes, making intertextuality and interdisciplinarity figurative equivalents; dialogism is a continuum on which intertextuality and interdisciplinarity are complementary nodes; and exigence, context, intertext, and hypertext determine the proper application of interdisciplinarity.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Language conditions these principles and prevents them from becoming reductive, per the article

Constraints¶

• The article frames the paradigm as a theoretical proposal for reconceiving interdisciplinarity, not as an empirically tested intervention

Target Learners¶

• college and university students
• higher education faculty and curriculum designers

Target Learning Objectives¶

• integrative learning across disciplines
• reform of fragmented higher education curricula

Claims¶

• Newell's complex systems theory of interdisciplinarity fails to explain integration, as its critics and Newell himself acknowledge [+W]
• Effective learning environments depend on the interaction of four overlapping frames rather than their compartmentalization [+W]
• Hypertextuality extends intertextuality into the digital world, foreshadowing connectivism [+W]
• Dialogue underpins networked learning: thinking in networks means thinking through collaborative dialogue [+W]

Related Theories¶

• Dialogism: Bakhtin's dialogic reconceptualization of architectonics as a philosophy of interrelations mediated by language and texts
• Kantian architectonics: a theory of the systematic, constructivist organization of relations in cognition and higher education
• Peircean architectonics as an interdisciplinary paradigm organized by triadic logic
• Intertextuality and hypertextuality as twin modes of convergence operationalizing online education
• Architectonics: the philosophical tradition of building and relating meaning, knowledge, and experience
• Dialogism, intertextuality, and hypertextuality: the language-centered genealogy leading to connectivism
• Dialogism: the relation of one utterance to other utterances as the context informing all writing
• Convergent science: integrating learning sciences and computer science expertise

Examples¶

• Four architectonic guiding principles for integrating teaching, learning, and technology

Key Sources¶

• Dennis, J. K. (2020). The Kantian Effect: Reconceiving the Integration of Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Theory. JIS Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, 4(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED608667