Rather than a therapy for academic neurosis, interdisciplinarity is in fact yet one more symptom of it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I don't believe that interdisciplinarity is a solution to relativism and specialisation. ❋ Unknown (2006)
One goal, universally embraced, is to break down the strict divisions between the school's academic departments and usher in a new era of "interdisciplinarity," with departments sharing faculty and dollars, collaborating on teaching and research, and eliminating duplication. ❋ Daniel De Vise (2010)
Why has 'interdisciplinarity' become a magic word? ❋ By MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ (2010)
This is a new kind of interdisciplinarity, and it can go a long way toward closing the we / they opposition. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That kind of breadth of topic, aka "interdisciplinarity," is precisely what one goes to Digital Humanities 2009 for, as opposed to, say, the ❋ Unknown (2009)
However, if we define "interdisciplinarity" as the historical trajectory and the canons of different art fields interpenetrating and cross pollinating, sharing affinities in their conceptual or aesthetic predilections, if not their notions of form, intermixing the texture of their social communities, then interdisciplinarity it seems to me is rare. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It does also seem like an argument for interdisciplinarity, reaching across communities to have a broader judgement. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Except that, Menand explains, interdisciplinarity finally does nothing to alter the ways in which the individual disciplines produce their professors. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The professoriate itself is well aware of the dilemma, Menand observes, and has enthusiastically promoted what sounds like a solution: “interdisciplinarity.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
Because they encounter so many fields in business school, students want to see interdisciplinarity: economics, management theory. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)
The interdisciplinarity of most contemporary successful development efforts, specifically those executed by and targeted at youth, is not an accident. ❋ Ming Holden (2011)
Ties in to interdisciplinarity in the humanities: Tisha Turk, for example, brings in film and literary theory to understand fanworks and provide a structure for analyzing transformation in non-word-based works. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)
All the selective small liberal arts schools boast of having a faculty of teacher/scholars, of a commitment to research and interdisciplinarity, and of encouraging community and service. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Seminar series; jointly taught courses; larger divisional, non-departmental umbrella courses; and research seminars can all offer these opportunities without the costs or illusoriness of small unsustainable programs (at Grinnell College, we have undertaken this through more emphasis on interdisciplinarity facilitated by our Expanding Knowledge Initiative). ❋ Unknown (2010)
By contrast, in a more modern interdisciplinarity that, we could argue, Romanticism invents, the formation of interdisciplines through a process of supplementation is the (in) completion of one discipline by another, in a process wherein disciplines in a positive sense remain a point of reference only in their "critical negation" (Ferris 1251-53). ❋ Unknown (2008)
