Browsing Association for Interdisciplinary Studies by Title
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Dewey Meets the Buddha
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1998)From the Greeks we have inherited the notion that a profound awareness of suffering is essential for ethical maturity. In Buddhism, a fundamental aspect of ethical awareness is that all life is suffering. In a more ... -
Dialogue with Autobiography: Integrating Through the Study of Personality
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Disciplinary Hegemony Meets Interdisciplinary Ascendancy: Can Interdisciplinary/Integrative Studies Survive, and, If So, How?
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)This paper explores the increasing challenges and possible solutions to the sustainability of undergraduate interdisciplinary studies programs at public universities in North America. It analyzes the causes of the current ... -
Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: The Case for Textbooks
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)This essay makes the case for the disciplining of interdisciplinarity through the vehicle of textbooks. It draws upon (1) the 2003 Delphi survey of interdisciplinarians regarding opportunities and challenges to interdisciplinary ... -
Distinctive Challenges of Library-based Interdisciplinary Research and Writing: A Guide
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)This article examines the current challenges of library-based interdisciplinary research and writing within the larger context of the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity. Based upon experience with college seniors ... -
Editors' Introduction
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Editors' Introduction
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Educational Connoisseurship, Criticism, and the Assessment of Integrative Studies
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002)How we might help students “synthesize” or “integrate” and then assess the process has continued to perplexed educators. This paper examines how “educational connoisseurship” and “educational criticism,” as described by ... -
Esperantists in a Tower of Babel
(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 ... -
Five Arguments Against Interdisciplinary Studies
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Following the Yellow Brick Road: Interdisciplinary Practices in the Land of Oz
(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 ... -
Fractals or Fish: Does a Space for Interdisciplinarity Exist?
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995)Stanley Fish has argued that being interdisciplinary is impossible. He claims to base this on an epistemology of deconstruction. This paper examines Fish's case against living interdisciplinary. It shows that his arguments ... -
From Mengele to Kervorkian? The Significance of Nazi Euthanasia for the Contemporary Right-to-Die Debate
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From Scientific Specialization to the Dialogue Between the Disciplines
(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 ... -
Future Directions for Interdisciplinary Effectiveness in Higher Education: A Delphi Study
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2003)This article discusses the findings of an empirical interdisciplinary research project the researcher conducted as the exit module for the completion of a Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas State ... -
Generating Integration and Complex Understanding: Exploring the Use of Creative Thinking Tools within Interdisciplinary Studies
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)The following paper examines the links between the interdisciplinary process and the creative process and reviews the potential for the literature on creativity to propose and advance tools for promoting interdisciplinary ... -
Guest Editor's Introduction
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1996)