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Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity
fills a gap in the current literature by systematizing and
comparing a wide international scope of case studies illustrating
varied ways of institutionalizing theory and practice. This
collection comprises three parts. After an introduction of overall
themes, Part I presents case studies on institutionalizing. Part II
focuses on transdisciplinary examples, while Part III includes
cross-cutting themes, such as funding, evaluation, and
intersections between epistemic cultures. With expert contributions
from authors representing projects and programs in Asia, Africa,
Australia, Europe, Russia and South Caucuses, Latin and North
America, this book brings together comparative perspectives on
theory and practice, while also describing strategies and models of
change. Each chapter identifies dimensions inherent in fostering
effective and sustainable practices. Together they advance both
analysis and action-related challenges. The proposed conceptual
framework that emerges supports innovative practices that are
alternatives to dominant academic cultures and approaches in
pertinent disciplines, fields, professionals, and members of
government, industry, and communities. Applying a comparative
perspective throughout, the contributors reflect on aspects of
institutionalizing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as
well as insights applicable to further contexts. This innovative
volume will be of great interest to students, scholars,
practitioners, and members of organizations promoting and
facilitating interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.
Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity
fills a gap in the current literature by systematizing and
comparing a wide international scope of case studies illustrating
varied ways of institutionalizing theory and practice. This
collection comprises three parts. After an introduction of overall
themes, Part I presents case studies on institutionalizing. Part II
focuses on transdisciplinary examples, while Part III includes
cross-cutting themes, such as funding, evaluation, and
intersections between epistemic cultures. With expert contributions
from authors representing projects and programs in Asia, Africa,
Australia, Europe, Russia and South Caucuses, Latin and North
America, this book brings together comparative perspectives on
theory and practice, while also describing strategies and models of
change. Each chapter identifies dimensions inherent in fostering
effective and sustainable practices. Together they advance both
analysis and action-related challenges. The proposed conceptual
framework that emerges supports innovative practices that are
alternatives to dominant academic cultures and approaches in
pertinent disciplines, fields, professionals, and members of
government, industry, and communities. Applying a comparative
perspective throughout, the contributors reflect on aspects of
institutionalizing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as
well as insights applicable to further contexts. This innovative
volume will be of great interest to students, scholars,
practitioners, and members of organizations promoting and
facilitating interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.
Boundary work studies examine how boundaries of knowledge are
formed, maintained, broken down and reconfigured. This text
investigates the claims, activities and institutional structures
that define and legitimate interdisciplinary practices.
Digital technologies and new media are changing the nature of
research, teaching, and learning in humanities. Interdisciplining
Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of
practice over roughly 65 years of work, providing an overview for
specialists and the general audience alike. It depicts both the
ways this new field is being situated within individual domains and
dynamic cross-fertilizations that are fostering new relationships
across academic boundaries. It also accounts for digital
reinvigorations of "public humanities" in cultural heritage
institutions of museums, archives, libraries, and community forums.
This volume is ideal for a wide audience interested in the digital
humanities, from a literary studies scholar designing a digital
collection for one author, an anthropologist or historian creating
a computer visualization of a site, a musical instructor mapping
sound patterns in the canon of a composer, an artist mounting a
multimodal installation, a foreign language professor producing a
digital archive of a period, a women's studies scholar researching
the relationship of the body and technology, to a librarian
building an online research guide to the field. Understanding its
contours will enable them to situate their activities within its
large expanse while sharpening their understanding of
interdisciplinarity.
Interdisciplinarity has become as important outside academia as
within. Academics, policy makers, and the general public seek
insights to help organize the vast amounts of knowledge being
produced, both within research and at all levels of education. The
second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity offers
a thorough update of this major reference work, summarizing the
latest advances within the field of inter- and transdisciplinarity.
The collection is distinguished by its breadth of coverage, with
chapters written by leading experts from multiple networks and
organizations. The volume is edited by respected interdisciplinary
scholars and supported by a prestigious advisory board to ensure
the highest quality and breadth of coverage. The Oxford Handbook of
Interdisciplinarity provides a synoptic overview of the current
state of interdisciplinary research, education, administration and
management, and of problem solving-knowledge that spans the
disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. The volume negotiates the
space between the academic community and society at large. Offering
the most broad-based account of inter- and transdisciplinarity to
date, its 47 chapters provide a snapshot of the state of knowledge
integration as interdisciplinarity approaches its century mark.
This second edition expands its coverage to discuss the emergence
of new fields, the increase of interdisciplinary approaches within
traditional disciplines and professions, new integrative approaches
to education and training, the widening international presence of
interdisciplinarity, its increased support in funding agencies and
science-policy bodies, and the formation of several new
international associations associated with interdisciplinarity.
This reference book will be a valuable addition to academic
libraries worldwide, important reading for members of the sciences,
social sciences, and humanities engaged in interdisciplinary
research and education, and helpful for administrators and policy
makers seeking to improve the use of knowledge in society.
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