Title & Author:

The Oxford handbook of interdisciplinarity / editor-in-chief, Robert Frodeman [and others].

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Description:

xxxix, 580 pages ; 26 cm

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A short history of knowledge formations / Peter Weingart -- A taxonomy of interdisciplinarity / Julie Thompson Klein -- Interdisciplinary cases and disciplinary knowledge / Wolfgang Krohn -- Box: prospects for interdisciplinarity / Jan C. Schmidt -- Deviant interdisciplinarity / Steve Fuller -- Against holism / Ddaniel Sarewitz -- Physical sciences / Robert P. Crease -- Box: mathematics and root interdisciplinarity / Erik Fisher and David Beltran-del-Rio -- Integrating the social sciences: theoretical knowledge, methodological tools, and practical applications / Craig Calhoun and Diana Rhoten -- Biological sciences / Warren Burggren [and others] -- Art and music research / Julie Thompson Klein and Richard Parncutt -- Engineering / Patricia J. Culligan and Feniosky Peña-Mora -- Religious studies / Sarah E. Fredericks -- Information research on interdisciplinarity / Carole L. Palmer --Box: transcending discipline-based library classifications / Richard Szostak -- A field of its own: the emergence of science and technology studies / Sheila Jasanoff -- Humanities and technology in the information age / Cathy N. Davidson -- Box: vectors: an interdisciplinary journal / Tara McPherson -- Media and communication / Adam Briggle and Clifford G. Christians -- Cognitive science / Paul Thagard -- Computation and simulation / Johannes Lenhard -- Interdisciplinarity in ethics and the ethics of interdisciplinarity / Anne Balsamo and Carl Mitcham -- Design as problem solving / Prasad Boradkar -- Box: InnovationSpace at Arizona State University / Prasad Boradkar -- Learning to synthesize: the development of interdisciplinary understanding / veronica Boix Mansilla -- Box: ZiF / Ipke Wachsmuth -- Box: creativity and interdisciplinarity / Thomas Kowall -- Evaluating interdiscipliary research / Katri Huutoniemi -- Peer review / J. Britt Holbrook -- Policy challenges and university reform / Clark A. Miller -- Box: transdisciplinary efforts at public science agencies: NSF's SciSIP program / Erin Christine Moore -- Administering interdisciplinary programs / Beth A. Casey -- Undergraduate general education / William H. Newell -- Box: the association for integrative studies / William H. Newell -- Interdisciplinary pedagogies in higher education / Deborah DeZure -- Facilitating interdisciplinary scholars / Stephanie Pfirman and Paula J.S. Martin -- Doctoral student and early career academic perspectives / Jessica K. Graybill and Vivek Shandas -- A memoir of an interdisciplinary career / Daniel Callahan -- Solving problems through transdisciplinary research / Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Christian Pohl, and Gabriele Bammer -- Box: td-net -- the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences' forum for transdisciplinary research / Christian Pohl and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn -- Box: sustainability foresight: participative approaches to sustainable utility sectors / Bernhard Truffer -- Systems thinking / Sytse Strijbos -- Box: mapping interdisciplinary research / Katy Börner and Kevin W. Boyack -- Cross-disciplinary team science initiatives: research, training, and translation / Daniel Stokols [and others] -- Box: managing consensus in interdisciplinary teams / Rico Defila and Antonietta Di Giulio -- The environment / J. Baird Callicott -- Box: biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species / Ximena Arango [and others] -- Health sciences and health services / Jennifer L. Terpstra [and others]-- Box: telehospice: a case study in healthcare intervention research / Elaine M. Wittensberg-Lyles, Debra Parker Oliver, and George Demiris -- Law / Marilyn Averill -- Risk / Sven Ove Hansson -- Corporate innovation / Bruce A. Vojak, Raymond L. Price, and Abbie Griffin.

Summary:

This title provides a synoptic overview of the current state of interdisciplinary research, education, administration and management, and includes problem solving-knowledge that spans the disciplines and interdisciplinary fields and crosses the space between the academic community and society at large.

ISBN:

9780199236916 (hardback)
0199236917 (hardback)
9780199643967 (paperback)
0199643962 (paperback)

Subject:

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Interdisciplinary research.
Cognitive science Research.
Interdisciplinarité.
Recherche interdisciplinaire.
Sciences cognitives Recherche.
scientists.
02.00 science and culture in general.
Interdisziplinäre Forschung
Knowledge.
Interdisciplinary cooperation.
Tverrfaglighet.
Forskning.
Kunnskap.
Håndbøker (Form)
Wissenschaftstheorie.
Erkenntnis.
Tvärvetenskaplig forskning.
tverrvitenskapelig
forskning

Added entries:

Frodeman, Robert.
Oxford handbooks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278460
Call No.: BIB 214030
Status: Available