Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities and Interdisciplinarities (Knowledge: Disciplinarity & Beyond S.) - Hardcover

Klein, Julie T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081391678X ISBN 13: 9780813916781

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 1996

Synopsis

Boundary work studies examine how boundaries of knowledge are formed, maintained, broken down and reconfigured. This text investigates the claims, activities and institutional structures that define and legitimate interdisciplinary practices.

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Review:

Crossing Boundaries demands to be read, as the most comprehensive and rigourous critiqe of the ways disciplinary boundaries still..inhibit knowledge-production and -integration. Exhaustive bibliographic citation; sharply written analyses; intuitive screw-drivering that demonstrates how strenuously we ignore how research/teaching still attend to primarily medieval models, while even today's elementary students are ready to boogie. Klein's important work will be influential in changing academe for years to come.

--William G. Doty, University of Alabama

About the Author:

Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities at Wayne State University. She is the author of Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice and coeditor of Interdisciplinary Studies Today.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 081391678X
• ISBN 13: 9780813916781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272