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Interdisciplinarity (Hardcover)
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Interdisciplinarity (Hardcover)
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At the turn of the twentieth century, colleges and universities in
the U.S. (and in many other places) were convulsed with change, a
change induced by the creation of the modern set of academic
disciplines. Their emergence at that time fundamentally altered how
universities were constructed and how they did their business. It
is the model on which the academy of the twenty-first century
operates. Very shortly after the creation of the disciplinary-based
academy, pressures began to build, both in the academy and in the
society that looked to the academy to help solve pressing social
problems, to develop interdisciplinary approaches to address
problems that fit poorly within the disciplinary structure. These
external and internal forces never fully abated, but peaked in the
aftermath of the Second World War (and especially at the rise of a
bipolar international system) and peaked again more recently. The
contemporary college and university is therefore a rich amalgam of
disciplinary and interdisciplinary units, problems, approaches, and
structures. Interdisciplinarity examines the contemporary academy
from this mixture of its disciplinary-based structure and its
burgeoning interdisciplinary focuses. Part I looks at the value of
the disciplinary structure in the contemporary university alongside
the motivations that lead to calls for greater interdisciplinary
approaches. Part 2 traces the development of external forces,
particularly the private and public foundation, that shaped the
development of interdisciplinary scholarship in the twentieth
century. The final two sections examine in detail interdisciplinary
teaching and learnings and the organization of university-based
interdisciplinary research.
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