Interdisciplinary Research

When it comes to interdisciplinary research and the education field, I think they both intertwine with each other. Different aspects of education can be viewed and researched from different aspects. For example, my writing group is looking at ESL students with ADHA. In approaching this topic, we are studying this aspect from several approaches. One member is looking at ADHA and reporting on the disability aspect of this learning disability and how it affects minority students as a whole. While another member is researching the language aspect of minority students and reporting how ESL student struggle with language barriers. A third member is researching the classroom dynamic and what classroom teaching or structures may look like when it comes to student with disabilities. As for myself, I am looking at the culture of students of color and researching academic challenges and the type of support system needed in dealing with a learning disability and ESL limitations. Overall, there is a combination of interdisciplinary research that is working together and researching a certain population through different interdisciplinary approached. In this case we have researchers from the field of education and psychology with different dynamic that are reporting on the learning outcome of ESL students with ADHD.