FROM CROSS- TO MULTI- TO INTERDISCIPLINARITY
This edited work presents a collection of chapters on a range of key areas in multi- and interdisciplinary research. They represent some of the current thinking and practice of interdisciplinary research, and are an outcome of the 1st Cross-Disciplinary Research Conference held in November 2007 at the University of Nottingham.
This book consists of a collection of contributions on interdisciplinary theory and practice, as viewed through the experience of 'new' interdisciplinarians. It spans a variety of disciplines such as education, psychology, law, architecture, media, and health care. Its purpose is to contribute to the emerging literature and academic debate in interdisciplinary research and to give new interdisciplinarians a voice.
This edited volume does not claim to cover all areas of cross-, multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary research. However, it represents some of the variety and exciting developments in as well as some of the challenges and problems currently facing interdisciplinary research.
In summary, the chapters presented in this book illustrate a range of approaches and applications of interdisciplinary research in different fields. The book contributes to a learned debate about the multifaceted character of interdisciplinary research and illustrates its strengths and limitations through interdisciplinarians' experiences.
- The Cross-Disciplinary Research Group: Overcoming isolation, promoting communication and interdisciplinarity
- Overcoming isolation, promoting communication and interdisciplinarity
- Complex systems and plastic brains: A trans-disciplinary approach to education and the cognitive sciences
- Interdisciplinarity in the ecological systems paradigm: How do we promote our future researchers' ecological thinking?
- Understanding teachers' use of educational technologies
- Cross-disciplinary dialogue around computer-based assessment
- Estonian Content and Language Integrated Learning programme development viewed through the stakeholder approach
- Can barriers to learning be overcome using reverse intergenerational learning so that businesses maintain competitive advantage?
- Are places of social interaction more important than classrooms?
- Philosophical issues in culturally significant architecture
- Music – the visual arts – architecture: Meaning production in media systems
- The need for and challenges of interdisciplinary research in biomedical neuroscience
- Cross-disciplinary practice: Applications to Health Care
- The legal method reconsidered: Contextual legal research from an interdisciplinary perspective – towards developing a new paradigm
- Confronting internal and external problems of cross-, inter- and multi-disciplinarity
- Index