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Disciplines in the Making - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation (Hardcover)
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Disciplines in the Making - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation (Hardcover)
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The organisation of higher education across the world is one of
several factors that conspire to create the assumption that our own
map of the intellectual disciplines is, broadly speaking, valid
cross-culturally. Disciplines in the Making challenges this in
relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy,
mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion and science.
Lloyd focuses on historical and cross-cultural data that throw
light on the different ways in which these disciplines were
constituted and defined in different periods and civilisations,
especially in ancient Greece and China, and how the relationships
between them were understood, particularly when one or other
discipline claimed hegemonic status (as happened, at different
times, with philosophy, history, religion and science). He also
explores the role of elites, whether positive (when they foster the
professionalisation of a discipline) or negative (when they
restrict recruitment to the profession, when they insist on
adherence to established norms, concepts and practices and thereby
inhibit further innovation). The issues are relevant to current
educational policy in relation to the ever-increasing
specialisation we see, especially in the sciences, and to the
difficulties encountered in making the most of the opportunities
for inter- or trans-disciplinary research.
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