In defense of disciplines interdisciplinarity and specialization in the research university
Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief...
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Chicago ; London
University of Chicago Press
2014, ©2013
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Academic disciplines, specialization, and scholarly communication
- The critique of disciplinary silos
- Dynamic disciplines
- Specialization, synthesis, and the proliferation of journals / (coauthored with Rebecca Henderson)
- Silos versus Web
- Receptivity curves: educational research and the flow of ideas
- Part 2. Interdisciplinary alternatives
- Antidisciplinarity
- American studies: interdisciplinarity over half a century
- Integrative undergraduate education
- Implementing interdisciplinarity
- Appendix: Data sources