Interdisciplinarity

Zusatztext A must read for any scholar or administrator seeking to advance interdisciplinarity in the modern research university. Individual scholars will find examples and advice about pursuing interdisciplinary research. Administrators will find this book useful in providing a conceptual and intellectual basis for pursuing interdisciplinarity, one that is nevertheless consistent with preserving the value of discipline-based inquiry. The book also describes the benefits and pitfalls of various institutional arrangements, such as interdisciplinary centers, for pursuing the value of interdisciplinarity. Informationen zum Autor John H. Aldrich is Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science, Duke University. He is the author or co-author of Why Parties, Before the Convention, Linear Probability, Logit and Probit Models, and a series of books on elections, the most recent of which is Change and Continuity in the 2012 Elections. He is past President of the Southern Political Science Association and of the Midwest Political Science Association and is currently serving as president of the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. Klappentext Today's academic faces a complex set of pressures pushing toward a disciplinary-based career and an interdisciplinary-focused set of opportunities for enhancing teaching and research. Interdisciplinarity examines just how and why the academy reached this point, and how the contemporary university and its academics can negotiate these possibilities and pitfalls. Zusammenfassung Today's academic faces a complex set of pressures pushing toward a disciplinary-based career and an interdisciplinary-focused set of opportunities for enhancing teaching and research. Interdisciplinarity examines just how and why the academy reached this point, and how the contemporary university and its academics can negotiate these possibilities and pitfalls....

Product details

• Authors: John Aldrich, John H. Aldrich
• Assisted by: John Aldrich (Editor), John H. Aldrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9780199331345
• ISBN: 978-0-19-933134-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 245 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Business & Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, 20th Century, Politics / Current Events, REFERENCE / Research, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Research & information: general, Research and information: general, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher