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The American Campus Ser.: Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration : Theory and Practice Across Disciplines by Barbara Prainsack (2016, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-100813585880
ISBN-139780813585888
eBay Product ID (ePID)221936081
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameInvestigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration : Theory and Practice Across Disciplines
SubjectCurricula, Research, Higher
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReference, Education
AuthorBarbara Prainsack
SeriesThe American Campus Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.1 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-008282
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsInterdisciplinary collaboration has been established as valuable to scientific creativity and vital to bringing knowledge effectively to major public issues. But discussion of what this means and how it works are still too often vague. This book will help, because it offers thoughtful and indeed disciplined case studies of how interdisciplinary collaboration works in practice., This high quality volume makes a crucial contribution to our empirical understanding of the worlds of interdisciplinarity at a time when they are generating a great deal of interest from funding agencies, academic administrators and scholars alike. This book should be required reading for all concerned., A most welcome contribution, filled with richly detailed case studies conducted by a stellar array of scholars. This volume scrutinizes key assumptions of the case for interdisciplinarity.
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal001
Table Of ContentForeword Helga Nowotny Preface Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack Introduction: Investigating Interdisciplinarities Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack Part I: Interdisciplinary Cultures and Careers Chapter 1: New Directions, New Challenges: Trials and Tribulations of Interdisciplinary Research Dave McBee and Erin Leahey Chapter 2: The Frictions of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Gregory J. Downey, Noah Weeth Feinstein, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Sigrid Peterson, and Chisato Fukuda Chapter 3: Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in Interdisciplinarity Laurel Smith-Doerr, Jennifer Croissant, Itai Vardi, and Timothy Sacco Chapter 4: Interdisciplinary Fantasy: Social Scientists and Humanities Scholars Working in Faculties of Medicine Mathieu Albert, Elise Paradis, and Ayelet Kuper Part II: Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity Chapter 5: Some Dark Sides of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Behavior Genetics Aaron Panofsky Chapter 6: A Dynamic, Multidimensional Approach to Knowledge Production Ryan Light and jimi adams Chapter 7: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Change in Six Social Sciences: A Longitudinal Comparison Scott Frickel and Ali O. Ilhan Part III: Changing Context of Interdisciplinary Research Chapter 8: "An Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal": Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era Stanford Cyrus C.M. Mody Chapter 9: Interdisciplinarity Reloaded? Drawing lessons from "Citizen Science" Barbara Prainsack and Hauke Riesch Chapter 10: One Medicine? Advocating (Inter)disciplinarity at the Interfaces of Animal Health, Human Health and the Environment Angela Cassidy Notes on Contributors
SynopsisInterdisciplinarity 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), 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), Universities in North America and Europe increasingly provide financial incentives to encourage collaboration between faculty in different disciplines, based on the premise that this yields more innovative and sophisticated research. Drawing from a wealth of empirical data, the contributors to Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration put that theory to the test. What they find reveals how interdisciplinarity is not living up to its potential, but also suggests how universities might foster more genuinely collaborative and productive research. Chapter 10 is available Open Access here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK395883/., 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)
LC Classification NumberBD255
