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Confessions of an Unconscious Interdisciplinarian
(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 ... -
The Structure of Interdisciplinary Knowledge: A Polanyian View
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1986)The five-part theoretical scheme that Erich Jantsch devised to describe interrelations among disciplines provides interdisciplinarians with a sound framework for interdisciplinary knowledge. However, when Jantsch introduces ... -
The Quiet Revolution: The Transformation and Reintegration of the Humanities
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1986)A transformation has occurred in the humanities during the past four decades which has permitted the humanistic disciplines to reintegrate with each other and with the social sciences. The gradual absorption of Saussurean ... -
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 ... -
Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Study, and Minor Programs of Study
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1986)The inquiry form of liberal education conveys a much-needed sense of purpose for undergraduate education. Inquiry principles enable the assessment of conventional organizations and practices with much clearer criteria ... -
An Introductory Comment: Integration, Cultural and Academic
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Origen: Reading as Discipline and as Sacrament
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)The work of Origen, an Alexandrian Father of the Church, falls in the first half of the third century A.D., before the Council of Nicaea established a firm rule of faith. Origen's work at Alexandria and Caesarea helped ... -
Controversy and Canon in the Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum: The Example of Biblical Studies
(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 struggle between ... -
Reading the Bible, Writing the Self: George Herbert's The Temple
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)George Herbert's unified poetic text, The Temple, may be read as Herbert's attempt to gain wholeness through reading the Bible and the signs of God in the natural universe. For Herbert, holy insight is based on comparing ... -
Response to Nicholson: The Case for Agreement about Interdisciplinarity
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Criminology: Discipline or Interdiscipline
(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 ... -
Intellectual Integration
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)Poetry serves as the prototype for integrating our culture and our minds. We need to put together things by retaining the identity of the parts yet creating new wholes. Poetry has a desirable tension between order and disorder ... -
Postmodernism and the Present State of Integrative Studies: A Reply to Benson and His Critics
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987)Benson and his critics seem to make three troubling assumptions: 1) There is only one valid theoretical approach to interdisciplinary studies. 2) Unanimous agreement is a possible and desirable goal. 3) When a consensus ... -
The Fragmentation of Knowledge and Practice: University, Private Sector and Public Sector Perspectives
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On the Need for Integrating Sex Discrimination Theory on the Basis of Causal Variables
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1988)The purpose of the paper is to set the foundation for an interdisciplinary model of occupational sex discrimination (OSD). The present fragmentation of OSD theory within and among disciplines is unfortunate since it impedes ... -
`Interdisciplinary': The First Half Century
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An Argument for the Study of Play
(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 ... -
Transformations in Disciplinary Knowledge and Their Implications for Reforming the Undergraduate Curriculum
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1988)In the various debates over what directions reform of the undergraduate curriculum should take, too little attention has been paid to the implications of the critical theory arguments of the past three decades which ... -
Organisms and the Mysterious X: Interdisciplinary Innovation in Experimental Biology
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1988)Interdisciplinary interaction was an important factor in the growth of radiation genetics in the early twentieth century. During the three decades after the discovery of X-rays in 1895, physicists had been puzzled by ... -
Reflections on the Nature of Interdisciplinarity: A Reply to Benson, his Critics and Nicholson
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1988)Interdisciplinary refers generically to ways of confronting the world that do not comport with the currently conventional means of knowledge production--to a new lens through which to see clearly that which existing ...