Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought - Couverture rigide

Strober, Myra

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804772312 ISBN 13 : 9780804772310

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Interest in doing, funding, and studying interdisciplinary work has built to crescendo in recent years. But despite this growing enthusiasm, our collective understanding of the dynamics, rewards, and challenges of faculty conversations across disciplines remains murky. Through six case studies of interdisciplinary seminars for faculty, Interdisciplinary Conversations investigates pivotal interdisciplinary conversations and analyzes the factors that make them work.

Past discussions about barriers to interdisciplinary collaborations fixate on funding, the academic reward system, and the difficulties of evaluating research from multiple fields. This book uncovers barriers that are hidden: disciplinary habits of mind, disciplinary cultures, and interpersonal dynamics. Once uncovered, these barriers can be broken down by faculty members and administrators. While clarion calls for interdisciplinarity rise in chorus, this book lays out a clear vision of how to realize the creative potential of interdisciplinary conversations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Myra H. Strober is a labor economist and Emerita Professor of Education and of Economics at Stanford University. She is coauthor of The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan (1999), and the coeditor of Women and Poverty (1990).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804772312
• ISBN 13: 9780804772310
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible