【2014】 In Defense of Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University

Book 图书名称： In Defense of Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University
Author 作者： Jerry A. Jacobs
Publisher 出版社： University Of Chicago Press
Page 页数： 288
Publishing Date 出版时间： Feb 3, 2014
Language 语言： English
Size 大小： 1 MB
Format 格式： pdf 文字版
ISBN: 022606929X, 9780226069296
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛，没有该文档


Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief that blurring the boundaries between traditional academic fields promotes more integrated research and effective teaching, Jerry Jacobs contends that the promise of interdisciplinarity is illusory and that critiques of established disciplines are often overstated and misplaced.

Drawing on diverse sources of data, Jacobs offers a new theory of liberal arts disciplines such as biology, economics, and history that identifies the organizational sources of their dynamism and breadth. Illustrating his thesis with a wide range of case studies including the diffusion of ideas between fields, the creation of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, and the rise of new fields that spin off from existing ones, Jacobs turns many of the criticisms of disciplines on their heads to mount a powerful defense of the enduring value of liberal arts disciplines. This will become one of the anchors of the case against interdisciplinarity for years to come.

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