Practising Interdisciplinarity / Peter Weingart, Nico Stehr.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Stehr, Nico, editor.
• Weingart, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Interdisciplinary research.

Genre:

• Kongress (Vancouver, 1997)
• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First-hand insights into the operations and successes of some of the world's foremost interdisciplinary research centres and the ways in which interdisciplinarity is researched, organized, and taught around the world.

Contents:

• Conceptual vocabulary of interdisciplinary science / Julie Thompson Klein
• Interdisciplinarity : the paradoxical discourse / Peter Weingart
• What are disciplines? : and how is interdisciplinarity different? / Stephen Turner
• Interdisciplinarity nature of science : theoretical framework and bibliometric-empirical approach / Anthony F.J. van Raan
• Mapping the new cultures and organization of research in Australia / Tim Turpin and Sam Garrett-Jones
• Beyond one's own perspective : the psychology of cognitive interdisciplinarity / Rainer Bromme
• Practising interdisciplinary studies / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
• Cognitive science as an interdisciplinary endeavor / Marc De Mey
• Inducing interdisciplinarity : irresistible infliction? : the example of a research group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany / Sabine Maasen.
• Interdisciplinary research at the Caltech Beckman Institute / Eric R. Scerri
• Major discoveries and biomedical research organizations : perspectives on interdisciplinarity, nurturing leadership, and integrated structure and cultures / Rogers Hollingsworth and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth
• Interdisciplinary research initiatives at the U.S. National Science Foundation / Edward J. Hackett
• Beyond the ivory tower : some observations on external funding of interdisciplinary research in universities / Wilhelm Krull.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

• 1-282-02848-0
• 9786612028489
• 1-4426-7872-0

OCLC:

806953035