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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Weingart, Peter
• Padberg, Britta
• Crow, Michael M
• Dabars, William B
• Boon, Louis
• Grunwald, Armin
• Nitsche, Dennis
• Spoun, Sascha
• Kölzer, Christian
• Marquardt, Wolfgang
• Wilhelmy, Thorsten
• Schimank, Uwe
• Frodeman, Robert

Titel

University Experiments in Interdisciplinarity: Obstacles and Opportunities

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Bielefeld: Transcript-Verl

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

UTB Scholars

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Interdisciplinarity is an inflationary concept in the discourses of higher education and science policy. Yet, some recent structural reforms in European and US universities reflect fundamental changes in the organization of knowledge production and teaching. This publication takes a fresh look at the meaning given to the concept of interdisciplinarity with these reforms. It presents examples of different forms of interdisciplinary research organization and teaching. These case studies are put in the broader context of reflections on developments in the organization of universities and their implications for knowledge production. Contents: Weingart, Peter/Padberg, Britta: Interdisciplinarity again... or still? - I. Interdisciplinarity in Teaching and Research (Crow, Michael M./Dabars, William B.: Towards Interdisciplinarity by Design in the American Research University. - Boon, Louis: Liberals Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands - Development and Relation to Interdisciplinary Education. - Grunwald, Armin: Between a Programm-Oriented Approach and Commitment to One's Discipline. The Experimental Merger of Different Research Cultures at KIT. - Nitsche, Dennis: The Foundation of KIT within the Context of the Science System - a Provocation in Science Policy. - Spoun, Sascha/Kölzer, Christian: A Place Apart. Opportunities in Developing Leuphana University of Lüneburg. - Padberg, Britta: The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) - epistemic and institutional Considerations). - II. Interdisciplinarity as a Guiding Principle for Universities (Marquardt, Wolfgang/Wilhelmy, Thorsten: "Cross the Border, Close the Gap" - Reinventing the University as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise. - Schimank, Uwe: Opportunities and Obstacles of University Reforms. Cluster Building and its Problems - From the Perspective of University Leadership. - Weingart, Peter: Interdisciplinarity and the New Governance of Universities. - Frodeman, Robert: The End of Disciplinarity) (HoF/text adopted).