Interdisciplinary Conversations : Challenging Habits of Thought

Myra Strober

ISBN 10: 0804772312 / ISBN 13: 9780804772310

Published by Stanford University Press Okt 2010, 2010

Neuware - Conversations across academic disciplines are the future. This work delves into the dynamics, rewards, and challenges of such conversations. Seller Inventory # 9780804772310

Synopsis:

Interest in doing, funding, and studying interdisciplinary work has built to crescendo in recent years. But despite this growing enthusiasm, our collective understanding of the dynamics, rewards, and challenges of faculty conversations across disciplines remains murky. Through six case studies of interdisciplinary seminars for faculty, Interdisciplinary Conversations investigates pivotal interdisciplinary conversations and analyzes the factors that make them work.

Past discussions about barriers to interdisciplinary collaborations fixate on funding, the academic reward system, and the difficulties of evaluating research from multiple fields. This book uncovers barriers that are hidden: disciplinary habits of mind, disciplinary cultures, and interpersonal dynamics. Once uncovered, these barriers can be broken down by faculty members and administrators. While clarion calls for interdisciplinarity rise in chorus, this book lays out a clear vision of how to realize the creative potential of interdisciplinary conversations.

About the Author: Myra H. Strober is a labor economist and Emerita Professor of Education and of Economics at Stanford University. She is coauthor of The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan (1999), and the coeditor of Women and Poverty (1990).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Interdisciplinary Conversations : ...
Publisher: Stanford University Press Okt 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu