{"id":72,"date":"2011-09-21T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.org\/?p=72"},"modified":"2011-09-21T22:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:30:41","slug":"interdisciplinary-conversations-challenging-habits-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another book by a Stanford professor that we should look at for institutional change, Here’s some of it on Google Books<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Strober, Myra, Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought.<\/em>\u00a0Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

“The difficult task of faculty and administrators is to retain the benefits of disciplinary specialization while at the same time fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.” (2)<\/p>\n

Recognizing funding as a big obstacle, she focuses on other issues: “disciplinary habits of mind, disciplinary cultures and interpersonal dynamics. It is also about what faculty and administrators can do to overcome these barriers to create productive interdisciplinary conversations.” (2)<\/p>\n

“…it turns out that talking across disciplines is as difficult as talking to someone from another culture.” (4)<\/p>\n

“To be interdisciplinary one must first be proficient in a discipline” (12)<\/p>\n

For a brief history of disciplines, see page 13. Some of the earliest universities were in Italy, France and England, 11th and 12th Century. To be a discipline, a body of knowledge must have identity <\/em>(departments across universities) and exchange <\/em>(a market for new doctorates.) (15). What makes graphic design a discipline?<\/strong> Let’s look into that.<\/p>\n

Interdisciplinarity is “a form of inquiry that integrates knowledge and modes of thinking from two or more disciplines…to produce a cognitive or practical advancement (eg. explain a phenomenon, create a product, answer a question, etc). By Veronica Boix Mansilla (15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another book by a Stanford professor that we should look at for institutional change, Here’s some of it on Google Books.   . Strober, Myra, Interdisciplinary Conversations: Challenging Habits of Thought.\u00a0Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. “The difficult task of faculty … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[47,81,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}