Practising Interdisciplinarity /

Practising Interdisciplinarity / / ed. by Nico Stehr, Peter Weingart.

Academic disciplines provide a framework for the transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next. Not only do they shape our education and understanding, they structure our professional lives. Interdisciplinarity, the reconfiguration of academic disciplines and the boundaries between them, has...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bromme, Rainer,
Garrett-Jones, Sam,
Hackett, Edward J.,
Hollingsworth, Ellen Jane,
Hollingsworth, Rogers,
Klein, Julie Thompson,
Krull, Wilhelm,
Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor,
Maasen, Sabine,
Mey, Marc De,
Raan, Anthony Rj. Van,
Scerri, Eric R.,
Turner, Stephen,
Turpin, Tim,
Weingart, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Stehr, Nico,
Weingart, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Popularity, Functions, and Paradoxes of Interdisciplinarity: The Discourse
  • 1. A Conceptual Vocabulary of Interdisciplinary Science
  • 2. Interdisciplinarity: The Paradoxical Discourse
  • PART II. THE CHANGING TOPOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE
  • 3.What Are Disciplines? And How Is Interdisciplinarity Different?
  • 4. The Interdisciplinary Nature of Science: Theoretical Framework and Bibliometric-Empirical Approach
  • 5. Mapping the New Cultures and Organization of Research in Australia
  • PART III. NURTURING ENVIRONMENTS OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY
  • 6. Beyond One's Own Perspective: The Psychology of Cognitive Interdisciplinarity
  • 7. Practising Interdisciplinary Studies
  • 8. Cognitive Science as an Interdisciplinary Endeavour
  • 9. Inducing Interdisciplinarity: Irresistible Infliction? The Example of a Research Group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany
  • 10. Interdisciplinary Research at the Caltech Beckman Institute
  • 11. Major Discoveries and Biomedical Research Organizations: Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity, Nurturing Leadership, and Integrated Structure and Cultures
  • PART IV. THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE FUNDERS
  • 12. Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives at the U.S. National Science Foundation
  • 13. Beyond the Ivory Tower: Some Observations on External Funding of Interdisciplinary Research in Universities
  • Concluding Comments
  • References
  • Contributors

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