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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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Chapter 1: Introduction Section I: The Value of a Discipline: Motivations for Interdisciplinarity Chapter 2: The Value of a Discipline Chapter 3: An Essay on the Relationship between Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity Chapter 4: Scholarly Motivations for Interdisciplinarity: Four Leaders in Interdisciplinary Social Science Reflect on Their Times Section II: Private and Public Foundations and their Role in Establishing Major and often Lasting Interdisciplinary Projects Chapter 5: "Follow the Money, " Private Foundations and the Early Focus on Interdisciplinary Research Chapter 6: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century: From Foundations to Federal Funds Chapter 7: The Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries: Government Support for Interdisciplinarity Chapter 8: Interdisciplinary Initiatives at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Or, Institutions Designed to Foster Interdisciplinary Research Section III: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Chapter 9: Interdisciplinarity and Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Chapter 10: Interdisciplinarity: Teaching Methodology and Graduate Teaching and Learning Section IV: The Organization of Interdisciplinary Research in the Academy Chapter 11: The Pitfalls and Promises of Creating Interdisciplinary Research Organizations on Campus Chapter 12: How Centers Succeed: The Interdisciplinary Center and its Administration Chapter 13: Interdisciplinary Centers: When and When Not to Choose Them References ...
