Interdisciplinary conversations
Subtitle: challenging habits of thought
By: Myra H. Strober.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780804772310
Subjects: Interdisciplinary research -- Case studies; Communication in learning and scholarship -- Case studies; Communication in science -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: Six interdisciplinary faculty seminars were studied: on the social sciences, on inequality, on science studies, on ethics, on consilience, and on representation with the aim of providing guidance to others in how to profit from similar seminars.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why study interdisciplinary conversations; title: The calls for more interdisciplinarity; title: Difficult dialogues : talking across cultures; title: Being in one's comfort zone : the case of ethics; title: Cultures revisited; title: Interdisciplinary dialogue within a broad field : the case of the social sciences; title: Leadership: the key to success; title: Outcomes of the conversations; title: Talking across disciplines.