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Author Strober, Myra

Title Interdisciplinary Conversations : Challenging Habits of Thought
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents Part I: Interdisciplinarity in Perspective; 1. Why Study Interdisciplinary Conversations?; 2. The Calls for More Interdisciplinarity; Part II: Looking into the Fishbowls; 3. Difficult Dialogues: Talking Across Cultures; 4. Being in One's Comfort Zone: The Case of Ethics; 5. Two Cultures Revisited; 6. Interdisciplinary Dialogue Within a Broad Field: The Case of the Social Sciences; Part III: What Have We Learned?; 7. Leadership: The Key to Success; 8. Outcomes of the Conversations; 9. Talking Across Disciplines; Appendix: Details of the Study; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Conversations across academic disciplines are the future. This work delves into the dynamics, rewards, and challenges of such conversations
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Subject Interdisciplinary research -- Case studies
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Case studies
Communication in science -- Case studies
Communication in learning and scholarship
Communication in science
Interdisciplinary research
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804775847
0804775842