Browsing by Author "Klein, Julie Thompson"
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Access to Interdisciplinary Information: Setting the Problem
Fiscella, Joan B. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1989)Identifying and locating interdisciplinary literature, and ideas and information that reside in different disciplines, poses problems for researchers and students. Using electronic means of access, such as online indexes ... -
An Argument for the Study of Play
Myers, David (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1988)This paper examines the potential for interdisciplinary solutions to problems resulting from a traditional view of the "diffusion of innovations," which has been one of the more popular topics of social science research ... -
An Interdisciplinary Model to Implement General Education
Hursh, Barbara; Haas, Paul; Moore, Michael (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1990) -
An Introductory Comment: Integration, Cultural and Academic
Becker, Christopher (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987) -
Arguing for the Rainforest: High-Tech Topoi and the Value(s) of a Database
Sebberson, David (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992)When the World Bank created its Environment Department, no institutional mechanism existed to create, collect, or disseminate environmental information that had accumulated in the Bank. Considering the ethical and political ... -
Being Interdisciplinary is So Very Hard to Do
Fish, Stanley (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991) -
Confessions of an Unconscious Interdisciplinarian
Murray, Thomas H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1986)This is a cautionary tale, told by one whose venture into interdisciplinary work began with a social psychology experiment. Realizing there were moral dimensions to the experiment, he began following his interests across ... -
Consciousness and Linguistic Competency: Making Interdisciplinary Choices
Vocate, Donna R. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991)A difficult problem for interdisciplinary study is deciding what constructs from other fields will comport well with the concerns of one's own academic area. Consciousness is a crucial concept for any discipline concerned ... -
Controversy and Canon in the Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum: The Example of Biblical Studies
Savage, Mary C. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)The question of canon, of whether undergraduates should read an authoritative list of books, raises substantial epistemological and pedagogical issues which may be obscured if the question is framed merely as a ... -
Creating an Image Bank for Teaching World Religion: Challenging and Reifying Structures of Knowledge
Carp, Richard M. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992)Creating an indexed set of slides for teaching the academic study of religion reveals how existing structures of power/ knowledge shape the frameworks from which new knowledge emerges, and how that knowledge may affect ... -
Criminology: Discipline or Interdiscipline
Binder, Arnold (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)In its modern form Criminology has had over one hundred years to assume a truly interdisciplinary nature, yet the dominant approach remains discipline-based. However, as the field of Criminology has evolved, the dominant ... -
Crossing of Boundaries: Interdisciplinarity as an Opportunity for Universities in the 1990s?
Vosskamp, Wilhelm (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1994)This essay discusses interdisciplinarity as a theoretical, historical, and political scholarly issue. Vosskamp emphasizes, first and foremost, that interdisciplinarity is both dependent upon and indebted to disciplinarity ... -
Editors' Introduction
Lenoir, Yves; Klein, Julie Thompson (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2010) -
Esperantists in a Tower of Babel
Becher, Tony (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1994)The problems and possibilities of interdisciplinarity are explored in this essay from the perspective of a favorably-disposed agnostic. It is argued that a piecemeal, step-by-step approach may prove more effective in helping ... -
Following the Yellow Brick Road: Interdisciplinary Practices in the Land of Oz
Long, Janette; Moran, Wendy; Harris, Joanne (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2010)This article explores the history and development of interdisciplinarity within the Australian context. Conditions and circumstances for the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches are explored with discussion identifying ... -
From Scientific Specialization to the Dialogue Between the Disciplines
Vosskamp, Wilhelm (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1986)The enormous increase of the objects of inquiry since the seventeenth century has led to an increasing specialization in the individual scholarly and scientific disciplines and in their research. Today, despite the immense ... -
Higher Education Leadership: Where and Who are the Interdisciplinarians? An Introductory Story
Baer, Linda L.; Duly, Leslie C.; Weir, Ivan L. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991) -
Honoring the World-Soul
Lewin, Philip (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991)James Hillman speaks of the need for "a psychology that returns psychic reality to the world," that restores the Renaissance cosmology of an anima mundi. In this essay, I present an argument for an imaginal epistemology ... -
How Libraries Cope with Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Women's Studies
Searing, Susan E. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992) -
In Search of Interdisciplinarity in Schools in France: From Curriculum to Practice
Baillat, Gilles; Niclot, Daniel (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2010)Interdisciplinary processes are being developed for a better present and future in primary and secondary education teaching in France. Over the past few years, the education authorities have increased incentives to open ...