Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies Volume 06 (1988)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
`Interdisciplinary': The First Half Century
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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 ... -
Post-Modernism and the Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies: A Reply to Nicholson
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The Fragmentation of Knowledge and Practice: University, Private Sector and Public Sector Perspectives
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