Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration (eBook)

Theory and Practice across Disciplines

Mathieu Albert, Scott Frickel, Barbara Prainsack (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2016
249 Seiten
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8591-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more innovative and sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this way in practice? Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The book s contributors critically interrogate the assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits, interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia s status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged shortcomings of disciplinary study. Chapter 10 is available Open Access here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2016
• Co-Autor: Daniel Lee Kleinman, Ayelet Kuper, Erin Leahey, Ryan Light, Dave McBee, Cyrus C.M. Mody, Aaron Panofsky, Elise Paradis, Sigrid Peterson, Barbara Prainsack, Mathieu Albert, Hauke Reisch, Timothy Sacco, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Itai Vardi, jimi adams, Angela Cassidy, Jennifer Croissant, Gregory J. Downey, Noah Weeth Feinstein, Scott Frickel, Chisato Fukuda, Ali O. Ilhan
• Vorwort: Helga Nowotny
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• ISBN-10: 0-8135-8591-0 / 0813585910
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-8591-8 / 9780813585918