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Xiao, Fang. "Interdisciplinarity among Academic Scientists: Individual and Organizational Factors." Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/pmap_diss/50.
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Drawing on a wide variety of social science theories, this study investigates the effects of tenure system, university climate for interdisciplinary research (IDR), gender, and industry experience on academic scientists’ engagement in IDR in different disciplines. Using survey and bibliometric data, two dependent variables are generated to measure production aspects of IDR: the self-reported percentage of IDR papers which is from researchers’ own estimate of their IDR papers responding to one survey question, and the calculated percentage of IDR papers which is a combination of two bibliometric indicators of scientists’ borrowing and boundary crossing activities. Results find that our conventional wisdom about the effects of some individual and organizational factors on scientists’ propensity to engage in IDR is outdated, and their effects depend on the disciplinary contexts. These findings suggest science policy makers, funding agencies and university administrators to keep fresh and informed about scientists’ research activities and underlying context and take full into account of distinct characteristics of different disciplines when they make or reform policies to encourage IDR work.
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Busby, Lisa. "All our Interdisciplinary Futures : Encountering, creating and Evaluating Popular Music ana Arts Interdisciplinarity." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520919.
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Semenikhina, M. A. "Interdisciplinarity in todays science." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/44934.
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Nowadays the interdisciplinary scientific fields are really interesting for researchers. We are living in the world, where any science cannot be thing-in-itself. Some greatest things are between physic and biology, chemistry and mathematic, IT and linguistic, biology and IT, etc.
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Maublanc, François. "Competition, Interdisciplinarity and Teams in Science." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BORD0354/document.
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La taille moyenne des équipes de recherche n’a cessé d’augmenter depuis plusieurs décennies pour l’ensemble des disciplines et quel que soit le pays considéré. Par exemple, l’étude d’Adams (2004) sur les articles publiés par au moins une université américaine entre 1981 et 1999 montre que le nombre d’auteurs moyen par publication a été constamment croissant passant de 2,8 à plus de 4,2. Les chercheurs ont tenté d’apporter des explications à cette observation. La complexité de plus en plus importante de la science a été une des premières idées développées : en effet, on a assisté à une augmentation du stock de connaissances et de nouveaux domaines de recherche, notamment multidisciplinaires, sont apparus. Mais cette hausse de la taille moyenne des équipes pourrait avoir d’autres origines : une concurrence plus forte entre les scientifiques les conduirait à se regrouper pour échapper à la compétition. Ce débat s’est peu à peu porté sur les causes, les avantages, les inconvénients et les conséquences de la collaboration scientifique. Les chercheurs ont essayé d’évaluer l’impact de cette dernière sur plusieurs variables comme leur productivité, la qualité de leurs articles ou encore leur nombre de publications, avec des résultats souvent différents d’une étude à l’autre. Dans cette thèse, deux questions majeures seront abordées : comment se forment les équipes de recherche et comment fonctionnent-elles ? Pour y répondre, nous formulerons tout d’abord une modélisation microéconomique sous la forme d’un jeu en deux étapes visant à expliquer les conséquences de la coopération sur la production scientifique et la constitution des groupes de recherche. Nous essaierons ensuite de déterminer de manière empirique les différents facteurs expliquant la formation des équipes en exploitant une base de données de l’OST portant sur l’ensemble des articles de toutes les institutions académiques mondiales depuis plusieurs décennies. Nous analyserons également les publications des universités de Bordeaux pour tenter de comprendre à tous les niveaux la formation et le fonctionnement des équipes notamment à l’échelle de chaque chercheur et de chaque laboratoireThis thesis aims at understanding the increasing complexity of research projects as one of the possible explanations for the fall in researchers’ productivity observed over decades. We conceptualize a research project as an idea and a team of researchers. Each idea is associated to a given knowledge production function that we suppose of the CES-form. Production factors are sub-team efforts, each one in a distinct field of expertise. We theoretically show that, at equilibrium, team outcome depends negatively on a synthetic index which characterizes its knowledge production function that we call disciplinary complexity of the research project. Though this index and its components are typically not observable in the data, we show that it is tied to the Hill index of factor contributions to the output, a standard interdisciplinary measurement in our application. This offers an opportunity to test empirically the increasing disciplinary complexity over time of research as an explanation of its decreasing productivity. We confirm those predictions on an original dataset of nearly four hundred thousand research projects over the period 1999-2013
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Drezek, Kathryne Margaret. "The Intellectual Impact of Interdisciplinarity: A Series of Studies of Graduate Students and Faculty Engaged in Interdisciplinary Scholarship." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29077.
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While disciplinarity still dominates college and university life, enthusiasm for interdisciplinary approaches has increased over the past three decades. Proponents often present interdisciplinarity as an a priori good, but scholars have noted that we have not yet sufficiently evaluated the efficacy of interdisciplinary initiatives. Most assessments of interdisciplinary initiatives have focused on tangible outcomes such as grants, papers, and patents. This is an unfortunate critical gap in the examination of interdisciplinarity, as it is possible that engagement in interdisciplinary activities changes student and faculty thinking in significant ways. This dissertation proposes to address the gap in the examination of interdisciplinarity regarding interdisciplinary learning outcomes by investigating the intellectual impact of interdisciplinary initiatives on students and faculty.
Utilizing a manuscript approach for the dissertation experience, this series of qualitative studies is organized around three areas of inquiry related to learning in interdisciplinary contexts: (a) how systematic interdisciplinary training affect doctoral studentsâ epistemic beliefs, that is, how they view the construction of knowledge and the nature of scholarship; (b) what faculty learn from engaging in interdisciplinary research initiatives, and what tools mediate this interdisciplinary learning process; and (c) whether an interdisciplinary training effort promotes the creation of an alternative community of practice for participating students and faculty.
The studies were part of a larger mixed methods assessment of the efficacy of the EIGER program. Participants were selected based upon their affiliation with one specific interdisciplinary graduate training initiative, the EIGER program, at Virginia Tech, and came from the hard sciences, engineering, and social sciences. Informed by grounded theory, analysis of the data revealed that both graduate students and faculty achieve interdisciplinary understanding as a result of their interdisciplinary training and research experiences. Furthermore, faculty interdisciplinary learning is mediated by other people and two categories of tools, problem platforms and solution mechanisms, and is achieved by both borrowing and lending of disciplinary expertise. Finally, results suggest that programs like the EIGER may constitute emerging communities of practice that serve as alternatives to traditional disciplinary communities.Ph. D.
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Massanari, Adrienne Lynne. "In context : information architects, politics, and interdisciplinarity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6193.
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Christensen, Torben. "Interdisciplinarity and self-reflection in civic education." University of Southern Denmark, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-27405.
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Focus of interest in this article are the concepts of globalization and civic citizenship and the questions are; what is required to be a global citizen, and how to work with this in civic education. The concept of civic citizenship implies democracy. A citizen is an independent and (to some extent) educated decision maker and actor, not a mere subject loyal to the sovereign. So whenever speaking of a global citizen democracy is implied. But the world is not a democratic place as such. Most of it in fact is quite undemocratic. The question therefore is how it is possible to act as a citizen (as a democrat) in global space. The article argues that this will only be possibly if citizens are capable of dealing with complex societal problems and to understand their own role as citizens (democrats) in relation to these problems. The argument is firstly that problems and issues in global space are complex and can only be understood interdisciplinary. Therefore the ability to reflect problems interdisciplinary is crucial to the global citizen. The second argument is that the ability of self-reflection is necessary for citizens in their efforts to understand, maintain and develop their own (democratic) identity and (democratic) values and practices in relation to the complexity and unfamiliarity of the various non-democratic identities, values and practices in a global space. Therefore it is suggested that students in civic education need to develop competencies of reflection on interdisciplinarity and self-reflection-as-citizen as key tools for analyzing societal problems and to act democratically on them. And it is suggested that dealing with interdisciplinarity requires use of second order concepts and that self-reflection as citizens requires third order concepts
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Wang, Kai. "Interdisciplinary research as collective interaction : an investigation of interdisciplinarity in the R&D sector of China's biotechnology industry." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4106.
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As China has celebrated its economic boom over the past decades, scientific research within the R&D sector of industry has become an active arena for Science and Technology Studies (STS) in understanding how science contributes to social change in China. Two themes are central in this sociological work: the study of secular change in China, in particular, change in its biotech industries exemplified by work in the BGI (formerly known as Beijing Genomics Institute); the investigation of interdisciplinarity in that context. This research sheds new light on explanatory practice in interdisciplinary research (IDR) strategy as patterns of interaction in the social process of scientific knowledge production, and its contribution also includes bridging the sociology of scientific knowledge production and research policy studies. In this thesis, I examine a number of topics at three interrelated levels of analysis. First, it explores the theoretical development of the academic discipline and the notion of interdisciplinarity, with a focus on the balance of normative and descriptive approaches in understanding their social functionality as embodied by what I name as Paradiscipline (the initial stage of IDR project). The second level investigates closely how IDR patterns emerge and evolve in the sequencing-based industrial R&D practice in the case of the BGI. Social, cultural, and institutional factors directing and conditioning collective actions by status groups within interaction network are carefully weighed against the context that scientific expertise speak to power in China's social setting. The last level is dedicated to yield more pervasive implications including the organizational structure of interaction and modelling of scientific research, via comparative analysis of traditional S&T management and governing 'Big Science'. It further addresses the issues around on-site governance of China's biotechnology industry R&D, at both management practice and policy making levels, on the basis of social embedment.
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Holland, Dominic. "The Problem of Interdisciplinarity : A Critical Realist Investigation." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500077.
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Tily, Rachael. "Space, research objects, and interdisciplinarity in geomorphological inquiry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c8a8ffe6-a018-4696-817d-8f98df1d2d4d.
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This thesis considers (inter)disciplinary spaces and research objects associated with geomorphology. Employing an ethnographic methodology, established Actor-Network Theory (ANT) themes are examined; the study considers the displacement of research objects amid the spaces of scientific inquiry and the role played by a range of actors in enabling this displacement. However, these well-known themes are given new impetus; the thesis seeks to address deficiencies in ANT accounts of space and it offers an alternative approach to conceptualising scientific research objects. Building on this analysis it considers how the spaces of geomorphological inquiry are reworked to accommodate interdisciplinary research objects. In this way, the study provides a strong theoretical contribution to the literature. However, this theoretical contribution is complemented by an important empirical base. The study is one of only a few Science and Technology Studies (STS) analyses to consider the geosciences. Focusing on late twentieth and early twenty-first century geomorphology, it provides an insight into an interdisciplinary field of research found in both geography and geology departments. In this way it offers an important contribution to the histories of geography literature and the literature on interdisciplinarity. Relatedly, through its attention to the interdisciplinary field of biogeomorphology, the study provides a bridge between existing STS literatures on the biosciences and nascent explorations of the geosciences.
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Villar, de Queiroz Fernando Antonio Pinheiro. "Artistic interdisciplinarity and La Fura dels Baus, 1979-1989." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2001. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/25535.
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This thesis aims to explore questions of artistic interdisciplinarity through a study of the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus's practice in the period from 1979 to 1989. This study sees artistic interdisciplinarity and La Fura as prominent aspects of contemporary theatre,which have received little critical attention in theatre studies. The general introduction attempts to define a conceptual and contextual framework for this thesis. Chapter 1 examines `artistic interdisciplinarity' as a significant conceptual instrument for this study. Chapter 2 investigates some instances of artistically interdisciplinary practice before and after performance art. Chapter 3 takes a general look at what constitutes the wider social and aesthetic context within which La Fura had its inception. Chapter 4 focuses on the group's early productions in Catalonia from 1979 to 1983, a period often neglected by scholars writing on the company's work. Chapter 5 presents Accions (1983-87),S u o/Suz (1985-91) and TierMon (1988- 90). These three productions comprise the features of the lenguajefurero. Chapter 6,7 and 8 examine these features, La Fura's manipulation of scenic threads such as space, time, sound, image, body and movement as well as the interdisciplinary exchanges with different arts. Chapter 8 also looks at the relations among La Fura's productions and questions of national and aesthetic identities in Catalonia and Spain. The final unit presents the conclusions of this thesis. Through a cross-disciplinary methodology, this thesis has the double ambition of stimulating further debates and actions in re-mapping theatrical language as well as connecting ideas about both main objects of study to an understanding of the art of theatre and its environments at the end of the twentieth century.
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Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage Loraj. "Coping with interdisciplinarity : postgraduate student writing in business studies /." Electronic version, 2007. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/537.
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Coleman, Anita Sundaram. "Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Education in Digital Libraries." CNRI, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105984.
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Focus is on curriculum development for Knowledge Organization (a core area, a problem area) using Learning Communities; rather than LIS education continuing to focus on Information Technology.This article reviews the state of education in digital libraries and curriculum planning documents from professional associations in two areas: Library and Information Science; and Computing. It examines suggestions for integration and interdisciplinarity in education for digital libraries curricula using definitions of a discipline, interdisciplinarity, and the transdisciplinary structure of a university in order to discover how such integration may be successfully accomplished. A plan to use learning communities and develop an interdisciplinary curriculum for Knowledge Organization is briefly discussed.
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Dixon, J., and Liz Sharp. "Collaborative research in sustainable water management: issues of interdisciplinarity." Maney Publishing, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3510.
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NoThis paper reflects on what is meant by interdisciplinary engagement in the context of two integrated urban water management research programmes in the UK and New Zealand. Different extents of interdisciplinary engagement in research teams are conceptualised on a continuum that ranges from rhetorical intentions to joint research. We discuss how interdisciplinary working in research programmes is shaped through the processes of bidding, research management and production of outputs. The paper concludes that if higher levels of interdisciplinarity are desired, they need to be specifically funded and planned for. In particular, funders may need to provide flexibility in relation to interdisciplinary outputs, which may be hard to specify at the start of a research programme.
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Sherren, Katherine Dove (Kate), and katesherren@yahoo com au. "Sustainability Bound? A study of interdisciplinarity and values in universities." The Australian National University. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, 2008. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20080507.100919.
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The United Nations declared 2005 to 2014 to be the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. This agenda is being implemented enthusiastically in university facilities management and operations, and while research in sustainability is increasingly common, tertiary curriculum has not experienced a similar push. This thesis undertakes to explore the expressions of sustainability in the academic activities of universities, and to determine what sort of change (if any) is appropriate. It also seeks to mediate what has become a polarised debate between idealists and pragmatists around the implementation of EFS. Two key features of the work are: 1) the investigation of sustainability in the aggregate student experience, rather than individual subjects; and 2) returning to first principles to avoid a normative stance a priori.¶
A range of methods is employed adaptively through the process of this alternately broad and deep exploratory study, including: participant observation, interviews, content analysis, questionnaires, social network analysis, bibliometrics, and data clustering. A systemic approach to Canadian and Australian case work captures the diversity of institutional roles and academic motivations at play in adaptation to the EFS agenda.¶
A stasis exists between the literature around higher education curriculum for sustainability and its implementation. The problem is exacerbated by the lack of pedagogical training in most university academics. A long-standing utilitarian sectoral culture and an increasingly job-focused student market further challenge such public-good concepts as sustainability in the academy. Four simple ideas sit at the heart of 35 years of environmental and sustainability education literature, despite changes in jargon: liberal education and broad foundations; interdisciplinarity in problem-solving; cosmopolitan philosophies; and civic action. Relevant disciplinary content includes biology, environmental science, policy, philosophy, human society, economics, and culture. Most of these elements are rare in the Australian sector, which instead offers science and technology-focused environmental programs with flexible requirements. A transition to the human realm is evident in programs targeting sustainability.¶
Curriculum cannot be viewed in isolation, however, as it concerns only one of a universitys many constituencies, and one facet of academic staff scholarship. For example, even in higher education sectors more sympathetic to a diversity of university niches and curricular models, like Canadas, sustainability offerings operate at a tension from low-cost and low-effort teaching models. So-called umbrella networking structures on cross-cutting topics must walk a careful line to be comprehensive yet non-competitive. They present great opportunities for sustainability teaching but are almost uniformly research-focused. A distinct sense emerges that the erosion of the collective identity and activities of academe has weakened the ability of universities to respond to new information and challenges in anything but corporate, isomorphic ways.¶
Two detailed Australian cases of research, research training and curriculum development activities around sustainability paint a rich picture of the agenda. The intractability of fragmentation between disciplines is evident, even in so-called interdisciplinary units. Problem-based topics often do not have an established social network or committee structure, and priorities can differ by budget unit. Disciplines provide identity, peers and cohesive research directions that can be compelling for individual academics. The most fascinating pattern that arises during the mapping of research co-authorship and co-supervisory relationships around sustainability is the bi-directional orientation: academics collaborate outside their departmental home on papers, but within that home to mentor research students. This combination unifies two contrasting theories of social capital transmission those preferring dense and sparse networks, respectively and may be ideal. Students then receive consistent messages while gaining access to the largest (non-redundant) set of human and technical resources via their supervisors personal networks. This hypothesis should be explored further: if supported, it would have major impacts on the rhetoric around collaboration in interdisciplinary units in particular.¶
Curriculum design processes in utilitarian universities are subject to the same fallibilities in adapting to sustainability as other institutions and the wider society. Change is motivated and moderated by financial imperatives and the scale of thought is often coincident with budgets. Engagement processes are often incomplete or undemocratic, hampered by inadequate leadership and shifting membership. Group learning via research, experimentation or vigorous debate is surprisingly rare. Finally, ad-hoc or project-based academic teams are rarely mandated to tackle the causes of problems, some of which can be intractable, and are limited to treating the symptoms. Incremental pragmatism may be a necessary element to university adaptation for EFS.¶
A number of recommendations are offered to improve interdisciplinarity and university values more generally. Individual academics should: offer additive alternatives to metrics and incentive schemes that maintain existing functions; act on common ground to rebuild a community of scholars; wield to the fullest the freedom in the classroom, and the opportunity to reflect, that university teaching allows; and, continue to debate ideas with passion and rigour, avoiding academic correctness. University management can contribute by: establishing a clear academic identity for the university beyond excellence, and supporting firm foundations for students based on that particular vision; taking a proactive view of course review and development and facilitating experimentation in those settings; intentionally fostering interdisciplinary units differently to disciplinary ones; and, establishing and recognising equivalence across a range of successful academic career archetypes.¶
This methodologically innovative work also suggests opportunities for extending the research, including: refining and testing the sustainability canon developed here; better understanding collaborative behaviour and the impact of various models of supervisory teams on student career paths; and, finding better ways of defining, modelling and evaluating interdisciplinary scholarship. Sustainability is likeliest to emerge from a healthy and independent tertiary sector, than one operating as an overt policy instrument.
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Bennett, Evelyn Nora. "The rhetoric of interdisciplinarity, manifestos and complaints in literary studies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0021/MQ36812.pdf.
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Ashraf, Ammara. "Romantic poetologies : collaboration and interdisciplinarity in early Anglo-German Romanticism." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8366.
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This thesis reads seminal texts such as Wordsworth’s prose, Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and The Excursion alongside Coleridge’s poetic theory and practice and Novalis, Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel’s philosophical novels and fragments, as ‘poetologies’. My initial research aim is to test how successfully Wordsworth can be read as part of this Anglo-German comparative framework, from which criticism has tended to exclude him. This is done through demonstrating the centrality of irony and drama to the philosophical character of Wordsworth’s poetry. Drawing on the theory of the Frühromantiker, I demonstrate that Wordsworth’s revisionary habit and his use of ballads and epitaphs shape a poetics constantly ‘in the process of becoming’ (F. Schlegel), the vehicle of the poet’s aspirations to dramatize a potentially infinite self-consciousness. Secondly, my thesis investigates the ways of reading these seminal texts which give us a clearer idea of how Romantic writers internally situate their own work through their use of contrasting genres. This investigation expands to examine how the collaborative, interdisciplinary ventures proposed by Romantic writers elaborate the concept of ‘poetology’ as a practicable theory. This leads to my final research aim: to make apparent that these methodologies result in the Mischgedicht, the ‘mixed poem’ which Schlegel theorizes as the ultimate incarnation of modern, ‘Romantic’ literature. The thesis concludes by drawing theories, methodologies and texts together and making sense of that ultimate continuity sought by the Romantic project. I do this by turning to the poetologizing of immortality (which supersedes death as a Romantic preoccupation) and arguing that to poetologize immortality – to poeticize and philosophize it simultaneously – is the test-case for producing the infinite from the finite. I suggest the necessity felt by Romantic writers to achieve this transformation in order to legitimate the permeable philosophical poetry and poetic philosophy – ‘poetologies’ – which made it possible.
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Toole, Toby Houston. "The Ways of Reflection: Heidegger, Science, Reflection, and Critical Interdisciplinarity." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271906/.
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This thesis argues that there is a philosophical attempt directed at combating the fragmentation of the sciences that starts with Heidegger and continues today through Trish Glazebrook's interpretations of the former's concept of "reflection," and Carl Mitcham and Robert Frodeman's concept of "critical interdisciplinarity" (CID). This is important as the sciences are both more implicated in our lives and more fragmented than ever. While scientific knowledge is pursued for its own sake, the pertinent facts, meaning, and application of the science is ignored. By linking Heidegger's views on the fragmentation of the sciences to Glazebrook's interpretations of reflection and Mitcham and Frodeman's CID, I show that CID is a concrete realization of Heidegger's reflection.
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Shin, Hejin. "Research interactivity of cognitive science : a bibliometric analysis of interdisciplinarity /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Sherren, Katherine Dove. "Sustainability bound? : a study of interdisciplinarity and values in universities /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2008. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20080507.100919/index.html.
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Staines, Andrew. "The Revised European Bathing Water Directive : a case for interdisciplinarity?" Thesis, Abertay University, 2009. https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/091e0bfe-b4f7-4e2f-b477-90da71a6b67d.
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The Revised Bathing Water Directive will have a major impact on the way that Competent Authorities assess water quality. It requires work in various disciplines to be streamlined into delivering the methods and approaches needed to deliver the requirements of the Directive. To achieve this, Competent Authorities will have to engage effectively with all stakeholders and embrace the principles of Integrated Coastal Zone Management. This does not currently happen. This research assessed the legislative and managerial development of the revised Bathing Water Directive proposal COM 581 and developed methods and approaches to support this, through the production of an interdisciplinary Bathing Water Management Framework (BWMF). This led to the creation of biological monitoring and communication methods that could deliver the requirements of the revised Directive. This research showed that the revised Bathing Water Directive will require Competent Authorities to work with others and look at novel ways of gathering and communicating information required for the Directive; including biomonitoring and emerging communication technologies. This will require the UK and Europe as a whole to embrace the principles of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). This research has shown that interdisciplinary research can be successful in answering complex, cross-cutting issues such as how to develop a holistic overview of Bathing Waters. When compared to a monodisciplinary approach, this research has advanced in several disciplines and also created a brand new intellectual space in the form of the framework. Whilst the interdisciplinary outputs are powerful the research has also delivered the article requirements of the Directive.
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Barber, Jacob. "Disciplinarity, epistemic friction, and the 'Anthropocene'." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33153.
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This thesis explores the scientific controversy over the 'Anthropocene', a putative new epoch of geological time conceived in 2000 by atmospheric chemist and earth system scientist Paul Crutzen. I trace the conception of the Anthropocene and explore its spread through a range of disciplines from the earth sciences to the humanities. Particular attention is paid to the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. This group was tasked with considering whether or not the Anthropocene should be subject to stratigraphic formalisation and be made 'real' insofar as the discipline of stratigraphy was concerned. The group's efforts, and the wide-ranging response to them, reveal the challenge of making sense of knowledge as it moves across different disciplines, settings, and contexts. While the AWG was tasked with producing a specifically stratigraphic response to the rising prominence of the Anthropocene, in performing their investigation the group took on board wide-ranging multidisciplinary expertise. As well as raising questions about the appropriate criteria for the group's investigation, the response to the group's efforts from a diverse range of disciplines illustrates the disunity of interdisciplinary work. The movement of the controversy from scholarly journals into an increasingly public sphere reveals further questions about the relationship between scientific authority and society as a whole. While different communities disagreed about the scientific value of the Anthropocene, many shared in their recognition of the role this scientific framing could play in fomenting a political response to anthropogenic global change. This thesis argues that scholarly debates about the Anthropocene illustrate questions about authority, epistemic privilege, and the relationship between disciplines that have ramifications beyond the controversy itself.
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Berger, Estelle. "Poïétique du design, entre l'expérience et le discours." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20044/document.
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Cette recherche, menée par un designer-chercheur en immersion dans le monde professionnel, interroge la problématique de la conciliation entre pratique réelle et prise de recul réflexive sur le métier. Dans cette visée, elle est en partie fondée sur une question épistémologique : quelles sont les connaissances spécifiques apportées par la recherche en design ? Quelle est sa place dans les cadres académique et professionnel ? De manière plus individuelle, peut-on aujourd’hui mener une démarche de design-poïétique, qui concilie pratique et discours ? Si oui, quelles sont les modalités de cette dualité, et comment l’intégrer dans le monde professionnel ? Explorer les porosités, les échos et les tensions entre praxis, pensées et implications sociales du design permet de développer une connaissance active, ancrée dans le réel. Envisagés sous l’angle commun de l’expérience, ces axes disciplinaires deviennent complémentaires, dépassant les dualismes qui ont trop souvent cours entre théorie et pratique, entre faits et valeurs, entre sciences et société, entre esthétique et politique. Une pensée du design ne peut pas viser à ériger des vérités, mais plutôt à ancrer la pratique dans une éthique, qui respecte les singularités de chaque individu et de chaque situation. Pour le chercheur, il s’agit de commencer par décrire ces relations entre pratique et réflexion pour ensuite les redéfinir en fonction de ses besoins – et permettre à d’autres de le faire. Le profil du praticien réflexif se double alors de celui de théoricien et de passeurThis research work, lead by a designer-researcher embedded into the professional field, questions the conciliation between real-life practice and reflective hindsight. On this basis, it partly relies on the epistemological issue: what kind of specific knowledge can design research create? How does it fit into both academic and professional frameworks? In a more personal way, how can one conduct a poietic design approach that combines practice and discourse? How to reconcile it with working reality? Exploring the continuities, echoes or tensions between praxis, theories and social implications linked to design practice is a way to develop a dynamic knowledge, rooted in reality. When looked at with a focus on experience, these disciplinary axes become complementary. They overcome the conservative oppositions between theory and practice, facts and values, sciences and society, aesthetics and politics. A design theory cannot aim at seeking the absolute truth, but rather at anchoring practice in ethics that respects the uniqueness of each individual and situation. For the design researcher, that means starting by describing the relations between practice and thinking, in order to rearrange them according to one’s needs. Then, the reflexive practitioner evolves into a theorist and a broker of ideas
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Asphaug, Anders. "Cognition, science and geography : an exploration into mental infrastructure and interdisciplinarity." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Geography, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-1564.
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This text explores the significance of perspectives from the cognitive sciences for interdisciplinarity or cross-domain thinking in science, and particularly in geography.
First interdisciplinarity is examined, describing some of the central conditions that such ventures exist under. The interaction between different conceptual systems is identified as a core issue in interdisciplinarity. By focusing on our conceptual systems the dissertation aims to say something general about interdisciplinarity and science, as well as focusing on what may be considered specific to geographic ways of thought.
The conditions for scientific and cross-domain thinking are explored through an examination of the human mind. The problem of relating our mental microstructures to cultural and scientific phenomena is given particular attention. Evolution, it is argued, has given the human mind an ‘intuitive ontology,’ which has significance for science, especially since it incorporates deeply rooted boundaries between knowledge domains. While this is important, it is incomplete as a view of science or of a discipline. The thesis therefore seeks to supply this theory with as much context as possible in order to get a more complete understanding of scientific activities.
To establish some features of the geographical way of thought, the intellectual history of the discipline is explored. Three features are particularly emphasised, namely its focus on usefulness, on synthesis, and on visual analysis. These features, it is theorised, form important parts of the explanation for why geographers often have sought to transgress boundaries despite the above mentioned intuitive ontology.
The thesis is mainly a theoretical contribution, but has also an empirical component. The Department of Geography at NTNU, Trondheim is described with a dual focus on intellectual characteristics and socio-cultural characteristics. The purpose of this is to better understand the theory about human cognition and geography in light of the complexities of a concrete case. By treating the Department as a complex adaptive system, the many different factors found to be significant are sought treated within one, relatively unified conceptual system.
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Crane, David C. "Simulation modelling of complex human policy issues : towards a broad interdisciplinarity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10871.
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Computer simulation models are being used increasingly as decision support tools for policy-making regarding many complex human-related policy issues. This requires a different method of application than that developed for the physical sciences. Starting with a review of current thinking in the philosophy of (physical) science and other literatures dealing with the methodology of economics and with metaphor, the concept of a model is expanded to include the informal assumptions upon which form structures are founded. Two types of interdisciplinarity are identified; the 'broad' which establishes dialogue between the non-formal foundations, and the 'narrow', which does not. These issues are expanded for the case of systems modelling (including system dynamics, complex systems and quasi-formal systems) to take account of the lack of an objective stance when addressing human-related issues. These ideas are applied to the development of the discipline of economics, and the demarcation between a mainstream and 'ecological' alternative is examined. A 'thick' or rhetorical reading suggests that the division is at best useful in only some circumstances, and hides a number of other important divisions within the field. The broad interdisciplinary method is illustrated by three case studies of policy-relevant models. The ECCO model represents national and regional sustainability options in the biophysical context using conventional system dynamics. The CarteSim model represents changes in spatial land-use patterns at the regions and urban level using complex system dynamics. The IPSO model is a hybrid of ECCO and CarteSim, using complex dynamic representations of the interaction between physical capital and technology options. Taken as a whole, the three case studies comprise a broad interdisciplinary inquiry into the debate regarding the effects of natural capital, human capital and technology on economic growth.
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Qi, Wang. "Studies in the Dynamics of Science : Exploring emergence, classification, and interdisciplinarity." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-184724.
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The dynamic nature of science is embodied in the growth of knowledge in magnitude and the transformation of knowledge in structure. More specifically, the growth in magnitude is indicated by a sharp increase in the number of scientific publications in recent decades. The transformation of knowledge occurs as the boundaries of scientific disciplines become increasingly less distinct, resulting in a complicated situation wherein disciplines and interdisciplinary research topics coexist and co-evolve. Knowledge production in such a context creates challenges for the measurement of science.This thesisaims to develop more flexible bibliometric methodologies in order to address some of the challenges to measuring science effectively. To be specific, this thesis1) proposes a new approach for identifying emerging research topics; 2) measuresthe interdisciplinarity of research topics; 3) explores the accuracy of the journal classification systems of the Web of Science and Scopus; 4) examines the role of cognitive distance in grant decisions; and 5) investigates the effect of cognitive distance between collaborators on their research output. The data used in this thesisaremainly from the in-house Web of Science and Scopus databases of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. Quantitativeanalyses, in particular bibliometric analyses,are the main research methodologies employed in this thesis. Furthermore, this thesis primarily offers methodological contributions, proposing a series of approaches designed to tackle the challenges created by the dynamics of science. While the major contribution of this dissertation lies in the improvement of certain bibliometric approaches, it also enhances the understanding of the current system of science. In particular, the approaches and research findings presented here have implications for various stakeholders, including publishing organizations, bibliographic database producers, research policy makers, and research funding agencies. Indeed, these approaches could be built into a software tool and thereby be made available to researchers beyond the field of bibliometric studies.QC 20160406
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Dabars, William B. "Disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity rhetoric and context in the American research university /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1680035121&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Tatum, Ronald E. "Celtic studies in higher education : the construction of interdisciplinarity in academe /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136449.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-241). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Morrison, David. "The underdetermination of interdisciplinarity : theory and curriculum design in undergraduate higher education." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6094/.
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Interdisciplinarity in higher education is a widely used but poorly understood term. There is a wealth of literature about the topic, but beneath the surface details very little of it agrees. Further, what attempts have been made to engage with pedagogies of interdisciplinarity in the undergraduate curriculum often suggest dubious programmes of ‘minimal understanding’ or ‘adequacy’. These are consistent only in their inconsistency and lack of standard qualifications, and are often short lived. This thesis explores why there is no consensus on interdisciplinarity, and why there is no consistently effective undergraduate curriculum to develop it, and seeks to resolve both questions via a range of empirical evidence from fields which have not heretofore been applied to interdisciplinarity research. Three problems are identified in the current research: self-contradictory pedagogic models; a general lack of reliable evidence for theories; and a lack of engagement with relevant educational and psychological research. Taking a pragmatic approach to evidence I review the existing educational research on disciplinarity and the psychological research on expertise, knowledge transfer, collaborative cognition and categorisation to see if these can yield more consistent and empirical foundations for an understanding of interdisciplinarity. The culmination of this research soundly undermines several of the persistent but ill-evidenced models of interdisciplinarity in the literature, namely pluralism, disciplinary essentialism, and competency-based models, and establishes a more coherent approach to interdisciplinary curricula. Taking the view that a model is not complete without connection to practice, I have also interviewed current academics in the ‘interdisciplinary’ field of Medieval Studies to correlate the psychological evidence with praxis. Ultimately, interdisciplinarity as a ‘thing’ or a stable academic identity is refuted in favour of interdisciplinarity as a particular focus of skills-based curriculum. This focus should ideally be developed concurrently with matching skills in a disciplinary context in order to balance breadth and depth of learning. This thesis ends with some forward-thinking considerations of curriculum models which could facilitate a balanced disciplinary and interdisciplinary approach in practice.
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Dixon, Kerry. "The Contested Space of STEM-Art Integration: Cultural Humility and Collaborative Interdisciplinarity." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467717193.
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Blanchard, Anne. "Reflexive interdisciplinarity : Supporting dialogue on the role of science for climate change." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011VERS021S.
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Cette thèse de doctorat porte sur l'interdisciplinarité mise en oeuvre dans le cadre de problématique en lien avec le changement climatique. L'interdisciplinarité a trouvé une expression très large dans la littérature, particulièrement depuis les années 1980, avec la reconnaissance grandissante des changements environnementaux planétaires et de leur nature complexe et incertaine. Dans ce contexte, cette thèse cherche à mieux comprendre comment émergent et se développent les coopérations au-delà des frontières disciplinaires. Ainsi, nous proposons, afin de faciliter leur mise en oeuvre, de relier de façon innovante l'interdisiplinarité au concept de réflexivité; la réflexivité étant comprise comme étant un questionnement et une analyse pluriels des représentations des présupposés, des motivations et des intêréts personnels et disciplinaires. Au-delà de cet objectif pragmatique, l'exploration de la question de l'interdisciplinarité permet de structurer un ensemble d'arguments critiques sur le rôle, les contributions et l'organisation des sciences du climat (au sens large) dans le contexte du changement climatiqueThis PhD dissertation is about interdisciplinarity for climate change: a research dynamic that has found a very broad expression in the literature, especially since the 1980s. This PhD tries to better understand how cooperations across disciplinary boundaries emerge and develop. More specifically it proposes an emphasis on reflexivity, in the sens of individual and collective scrutiny of the personal as well as disciplinary assumptions, motivations and interests, to facilitate innovative and authentic interdisciplinarity. Beyond this pragmatic objective, the exploration of interdisciplinarity for climate change allows for critical discussions on the role and organisation of science for this issue
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DONINA, DAVIDE. "The Impact of Higher Education Reforms in Italy: Governance, Funding, and Interdisciplinarity." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Pavia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11571/1203347.
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The dissertation analyses how reforms from 2010 to 2015 have affected governance, funding, and interdisciplinarity into the Italian higher education sector. A post-positivistic stance is adopted, through mixed method strategy, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques, and using multiple sources of evidence. Data generated from intertextual and qualitative analysis of the contents of official policy documents and university statutes are analysed and triangulated with statistical data retrieved from publicly available national databases, from ministerial decrees as well as from reports on the Italian higher education system. The first three articles analyse the governance at both systemic and institutional levels, the forth article addresses the public funding issue, while the last paper inspects the governance of interdisciplinarity into the Italian higher education system. Research contributions highlight the value of taking a more holistic perspective on policy and governance issues. The first article aims to evaluate Italian higher education reform according to broader public management narratives. In order to do this, it bridges the public management reform narratives to a model widely employed in higher education literature to evaluate the governance regime of higher education systems, devising thus a new analytical framework to assess higher education reform trajectories within public management narratives, and employs it to position the Italian case. The analysis shows that the public management narrative that complies to explain the Italian reform is the neo-Weberian one rather than new public management. This result brings out a gap in current higher education literature as it challenges the widely shared assumption that the Italian system is being reformed according to new public management trajectory. Concurrently, the article stresses that new public management is not the only way forward governments are employing to reform their higher education systems and further narratives can benefit higher education research. The papers on institutional governance confirm previous result, showing divergent interpretations of supra-national and national policies at governmental and institutional levels. The comparative paper with Portugal highlights divergences in organizational choices of universities in both countries with respect to the institutional governance model driven by new public management concepts, while the article focused on Italy shows that dissimilarities arise even when a unitary national regulation is implemented, and clusters Italian state universities into groups that made similar choices. Other research contributions also support the value of taking a more holistic perspective. Article on funding allocation reform shows that the analysis of a policy change alone can be misleading since it can fit within more public management reform narratives, while the article on the governance of interdisciplinarity stresses that it is the interaction of policies into several governance domains that is crucial to achieve a policy target. Policy and managerial implications of the findings are also discussed.The dissertation analyses how reforms from 2010 to 2015 have affected governance, funding, and interdisciplinarity into the Italian higher education sector. A post-positivistic stance is adopted, through mixed method strategy, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques, and using multiple sources of evidence. Data generated from intertextual and qualitative analysis of the contents of official policy documents and university statutes are analysed and triangulated with statistical data retrieved from publicly available national databases, from ministerial decrees as well as from reports on the Italian higher education system. The first three articles analyse the governance at both systemic and institutional levels, the forth article addresses the public funding issue, while the last paper inspects the governance of interdisciplinarity into the Italian higher education system. Research contributions highlight the value of taking a more holistic perspective on policy and governance issues. The first article aims to evaluate Italian higher education reform according to broader public management narratives. In order to do this, it bridges the public management reform narratives to a model widely employed in higher education literature to evaluate the governance regime of higher education systems, devising thus a new analytical framework to assess higher education reform trajectories within public management narratives, and employs it to position the Italian case. The analysis shows that the public management narrative that complies to explain the Italian reform is the neo-Weberian one rather than new public management. This result brings out a gap in current higher education literature as it challenges the widely shared assumption that the Italian system is being reformed according to new public management trajectory. Concurrently, the article stresses that new public management is not the only way forward governments are employing to reform their higher education systems and further narratives can benefit higher education research. The papers on institutional governance confirm previous result, showing divergent interpretations of supra-national and national policies at governmental and institutional levels. The comparative paper with Portugal highlights divergences in organizational choices of universities in both countries with respect to the institutional governance model driven by new public management concepts, while the article focused on Italy shows that dissimilarities arise even when a unitary national regulation is implemented, and clusters Italian state universities into groups that made similar choices. Other research contributions also support the value of taking a more holistic perspective. Article on funding allocation reform shows that the analysis of a policy change alone can be misleading since it can fit within more public management reform narratives, while the article on the governance of interdisciplinarity stresses that it is the interaction of policies into several governance domains that is crucial to achieve a policy target. Policy and managerial implications of the findings are also discussed.
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Caroni, S. B. "Thinking beyond disciplines : intellectuality, interdisciplinarity, and creativity in Pierre Bourdieu and Umberto Eco." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1393288/.
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At the end of the twentieth century, Pierre Bourdieu and Umberto Eco were two of the most prominent intellectuals in France and Italy. Yet, in spite of the fact that France and Italy are neighbouring countries and have been, historically, exercising an on-going cultural influence upon each other, there is no systematic comparative study of these two intellectuals. This study responds to this absence by offering, within the framework of an interdisciplinary project, a thorough analysis of some of the key themes of the thought of Bourdieu and Eco. By addressing how Bourdieu’s and Eco’s work contributes to a better understanding of the creative and the interdisciplinary nature of intellectuality, this study explores the following hypothesis: those scholars who become known to the general public as public intellectuals are often interested in exploring and in testing the limits of disciplinary fields. In so doing, they challenge the norms that define academic professionalism and the growing specialisation of knowledge in academia. By highlighting the differences, as well as the similarities in the approaches of Bourdieu and Eco, this study shows that critical engagement is defined by the very disciplinary boundaries and structures it attempts to challenge and question. This study demonstrates that interdisciplinarity does neither exclude nor render obsolete existing disciplines. On the contrary, solid grounding in one discipline facilitates the production of interdisciplinary knowledge. As the examples of Bourdieu and Eco show, disciplines can be transcended only once they are fully mastered. Once fully mastered they appear in their contingency, not as absolute statements but rather as vehicles towards knowledge.
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Golden, Catherine Anne. "Ideological Expansion in Higher Education Discourse| A Study of Interdisciplinarity in Undergraduate Education." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3615560.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests interdisciplinary ideas receive significant, positive press. The prevailing commentary details the promises and theoretical benefits of interdisciplinarity, yet countervailing viewpoints are noticeably absent from the conversation in major media sources. Moreover, there is a lack of empirical data exploring the values associated with the term, interdisciplinary. The study examined what ideological assertions are supported through interdisciplinarity in undergraduate education discourse published in The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1993-2013. Employing a critical framing, the study utilized document analysis to examine ideological building blocks (i.e. values, assumptions, symbols, and ideographs) in 177 articles over a 20-year period. Exploring the evolution of interdisciplinarity in the discourse provided an opportunity to present a rich, contextualized meaning of an important higher education concept. The findings suggested a positive, solution-orientation are associated with the term, and offered evidence for an emergent micro-ideology in the higher education community.
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Thiault, Lauric. "Social-ecological vulnerability : from assessment to action." Thesis, Paris 6, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA066352/document.
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La science et la pratique contemporaines en matière de gestion durable des ressources naturelles vivantes doivent prendre en compte la complexité des systèmes socio-écologiques et tirer profit des récentes avancées théoriques et appliquées réalisées dans diverses disciplines. Cela peut notamment être effectué en intégrant cette connaissance approfondie dans la gestion et la prise de décision par le biais de cadres intégratifs et opérationnels. Sur la base de cas d'études contrastés, mais complémentaires (pêche lagonaire récifale à Moorea, en Polynésie française; pêche benthique artisanale au Chili; et systèmes alimentaires globaux), et en s'appuyant sur le développement récent des sciences socio-écologiques, nous avons étendu l'utilisation du concept de vulnérabilité socio-écologique pour (1) cartographier les interdépendances entre l’Homme et la nature dans le contexte des interactions pêcheur-ressource, (2) intégrer la dimension temporelle, (3) tenir compte de multiples facteurs de changement et de (4) leur impact sur diverses entités du système considéré. Ce travail interdisciplinaire a servi de fondement à la représentation des liens clés dans les systèmes socio-écologiques, à la compréhension des sources sous-jacentes de non-durabilité et à l'établissement d'un ensemble de mesures de gestion ciblées et contextuelles. Cette thèse fournit une nouvelle perspective sur les liens entre l'homme et la nature et possède un certain nombre d'implications pratiques pour les gestionnaires, les planificateurs de la conservation et les décideurs qui cherchent à intégrer une perspective socio-écologique pour aborder les problèmes de gestion des ressourcesContemporary sustainability science and practice must embrace the complexity of social-ecological systems and capitalize on the lessons learned from the recent theoretical and applied advances made in various disciplines. This can be accomplished in particular by incorporating this extensive knowledge into management and decision making through integrative and operational frameworks. Based on contrasting but complementary case studies (coral reef fishery in Moorea, French Polynesia; artisanal benthic fishery in Chile and global food systems), and drawing from the recent development in social-ecological science, we extended the use of the social-ecological vulnerability framework by (1) mapping human-nature dependencies in the context of resource-user interactions, (2) integrating the temporal dimension, (3) accounting for multiple drivers of change and (4) their impact on diverse entities of the system considered. This interdisciplinary work provided the foundation to represent key linkages in social-ecological systems, understand the underlying sources of unsustainability, and address these through a set of targeted and context-grounded management interventions and policy actions. This thesis provides a new perspective on human-nature linkages and has a number practical implications for managers, conservation planners, and policy-makers that seek to incorporate a social-ecological perspective to tackle sustainability issues from local to global scales
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Cuevas, Garcia Carlos Adrian. "Sense-making and self-making in interdisciplinarity : an analysis of dilemmatic discourses of expertise." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33552/.
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This thesis explores the discursive environment in which the ‘interdisciplinary self’ is constructed. Interdisciplinarity is part of research policy agendas across the globe; however, there are competing and contrasting discourses about its value. On the one hand, interdisciplinarity is meant to foster innovation and to address contemporary world problems; on the other hand, it represents an intellectual and a professional risk for those who engage in it. Interdisciplinarity has become a research topic in itself, but scholars have not engaged with contemporary literature on ‘the self’ and on expertise. This limits our understanding of the individuals who engage in interdisciplinary research and how they deal with their intellectual and professional challenges. This thesis aims to fill this gap by reviewing literature on expertise and analysing 27 semi-structured interviews with researchers and administrators from a large research-oriented British university. The analysis draws on an approach that focuses on how ‘the self’ is constructed in discourse and biographical narrative, taking up but also resisting widely established meanings (e.g. what is an expert, what is worthwhile professionally, etc.). The analysis identifies in particular four ‘ideological dilemmas’ that the interviewees struggle with in their arguments about their background, their skills, and the value of their careers; namely the dilemmas of ‘openness and rigour’, ‘individualism and collectivism’, ‘disciplinary tolerance and expert prejudice’, and ‘effort and reward’. These dilemmas suggest that the ‘interdisciplinary self’ is performatively and discursively constructed in a rhetorical context in which no position can remain untroubled. Therefore associating interdisciplinary individuals with idealised traits, personalities and ‘virtues’ is not so adequate. It is suggested that ‘interdisciplinary expertise’ consists of the skills of managing these dilemmas, which may be partially but not permanently solved.
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Vollmann, Martin [Verfasser], and Jörg [Akademischer Betreuer] Oechssler. "Essays in experimental and behavioral economics: methods and interdisciplinarity / Martin Vollmann ; Betreuer: Jörg Oechssler." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1234460645/34.
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STAPENHORST, CAROLIN CHRISTIN. "The Concept as an operant Instrument within the Interdisciplinarity of the Architectural Design Process." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2497365.
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In the introduction to their book "What is philosophy?" Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari deplore the inflationary and trivialised use of the term concept: "Finally, the most shameful moment came when computer science, marketing, design and advertising, all the disciplines of communication, seized hold of the word concept itself and said: 'This is our concern, we are the creative ones, we are the ideas men! We are the friends of the concept, we put in our computers.' " This doctoral thesis shares the concern of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, but still, it is a thesis in architecture and thus collocated within the field of the representatives of the "ideas men". It engages in architectural design theory, and refers in particular to the investigation of methodological approaches within the design process. Therefore, the thesis will not contribute to the philosophical dimension of the term, but intends to overcome its imprecise use within the architectural discourse, in compliance with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's admonition relative to vague definitions: "Dans les arts, et dans l'architecture en particulier, les définitions vagues ont causé bien des erreurs, ont laissé germer bien des préjugés, enraciner bien des idées fausses. On met un mot en avant, chacun y attache un sens différent."
The term concept in architecture is very often used as pure marketing collateral, it serves to sell an idea, a product, a design. Its functional applicability is reduced to a special manner of illustration, produced as one of the various design presentation documents at the end of the design process. In contrast, the original contribution of this thesis aims to give a precise, instrumental dimension to the term concept: the concept is the expression of a specific logic, capable to guide the decisional sequences of the process and thus to improve the quality of the designed projects.
The motivation to define a specific instrumentality of the concept is closely connected to the issue of interdisciplinarity in the architects’ profession. The interdisciplinary character of the architectural field is widely accepted and discussed as such, but the thesis intends to give a more precise definition of the various kinds of competences involved by classifying them into either the internal or the external group. The traditional notion of interdisciplinarity, predominantly seen as collaboration between architects and technical experts, and, most notably, the historical, sometimes contentious, relationship between architects and engineers is described. Referring to recent developments, the transformation of the architect’s role within the professional sphere, marked by an increasing importance of diverse influences and linked to a growing risk of marginalisation, is illustrated. The thesis describes different ways to adapt to this specific kind of interdisciplinarity, which generally requires the architect’s ability to connect and to integrate various contents, different points of view and diverse scales. On the other hand, the big potential which is implicit in the interdisciplinary field is exposed: architects can inform their core competence, the design, by extracting contents of different disciplinary competences, pertaining or not pertaining to their own professional field. They have the possibility to cross fields of external competences in a selective way and by doing so they can build up a corpus of knowledge capable to generate and communicate guidelines and systematic methodologies for their design. At the end, the analysis of these two aspects allows the definition of a more specific professional profile of the architect as specialist of interdisciplinarity.
The thesis is concerned with the theories around the design process. The design process is seen as open to inspection and critical evaluation, with major focus on the decisional sequences which characterise it. It concentrates on the process’ descriptiveness and the degree of self-conscious approaches applied within it. The importance of regulative, strategic mechanisms is illustrated by testimonies taken from a series of design researches and leads to the functional definition of the figure of the concept as representation of a coherent set of ideas, as generator of a project-specific system of rules and as communicator of decisional strategies.
The concept's function is furthermore defined as communicative interface which generates and transmits the system of rules authoritative for all the disciplinary competences involved in the design process, a communicative interface which constitutes a basis of shared convictions capable to increase the efficiency of collaboration. Furthermore, the concept's capacity to explore and elaborate the contents of external disciplines is identified as a possible methodological approach to innovative design thinking.
The approach to a specific functional definition of the concept is continued by the description of a series of instruments that are simultaneously generating and communicating it. It is outlined to which degree the concept itself is already the result of an ideational process, collocated within the initial phase of the design proceedings, serving as a guideline to them, but still continuously evolving and adapting in its progression. In addition, it is illustrated how all the diverse instruments of the concept are operational media through which the knowledge transition between different disciplines can occur.
The considerations about the concept as operational instrument of design are elaborated with regard to a number of examples of didactical applications that are particularly involved in the development and teaching of specific design methods. These examples illustrate the interrelations between design theory and design education. They are derived from very different schools of architecture and diverse mindsets, but all of them transmit models of conceptual design thinking.
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Gilhet-Marchessaux, Guillaume. "Etude de l'anthroposystème emblématique de l'étang de Berre : approches écosystémique et sociologique de l'impact du cténaire invasif Mnemiopsis leidyi." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0100/document.
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L’étang de Berre est un écosystème lagunaire historiquement perturbé par de forts rejets industriels et par des apports importants en eau douce naturels et anthropiques (centrale hydroélectrique EDF). Alors que les politiques de réhabilitation initiées depuis 1994 commencent à enregistrer leurs premiers succès, l'introduction et la prolifération de Mnemiopsis leidyi en 2005 pourraient limiter leur efficacité. L’originalité de cette étude est d’associer océanographie et sociologie afin d’estimer l’impact de M. leidyi sur le fonctionnement de ce socio-écosystème. Nous avons pu montrer que la population de M. leidyi est capable de se maintenir sur une large gamme de températures (3°C-28°C) et de salinités (10-30), pour une quantité de carbone disponible > 3 µgC L-1, la température étant un facteur déterminant dans la dynamique de la population. L’absence Mnemiopsis au cours d’évènements froids et sa réapparition plusieurs mois après laissent penser soit à l’existence d’une zone refuge qui a été déterminée (étang de Vaine) favorable au maintien des cténaires. Les fortes proliférations de M. leidyi affectent principalement la pêche professionnelle (fort colmatage des filets, mutilation des prises, dégradation accélérée du matériel, augmentation de la pénibilité) induisant une perte économique annuelle estimée à 50 %. Dans le cadre interdisciplinaire, la compréhension des interactions biologiques et anthropiques a permis de montrer que Mnemiopsis présentait une entrave à la mise en œuvre des efforts de réhabilitationThe Berre Lagoon is an ecosystem historically disturbed by strong industrial discharges and significant freshwaters inputs from both natural and anthropogenic (EDF hydroelectric power station) origins. While rehabilitation policies initiated in 1994 are already showing some success, the introduction and proliferation of Mnemiopsis leidyi since 2005 could limit their effectiveness. The originality of this study is to associate oceanography and sociology in order to estimate the impact of M. leidyi on the functioning of this socio-ecosystem. We were able to show that the population of M. leidyi is maintained within a large range of temperatures (3 °C-28 °C) and salinities (10-30), with a quantity of carbon available ~ 3 mg C L-1 or more, temperature being a determining factor in population dynamics. The absence of this ctenophore on during cold events and its recurrence several months later suggests either the existence of an external source or the presence of a refuge zone that has been determined (Vaine lagoon) favourable to the maintenance of the ctenophores. The strong proliferation of M. leidyi in the Berre lagoon mainly affects professional fishermen. The clogging of nets, the mutilation of catches, the accelerated degradation of the material and the increase in the strenuousness induce an annual economic loss estimated at 50 %. Here in our interdisciplinary framework, the understanding of the biological and the anthropogenic interactions has shown that Mnemiopsis is tempering with the implementation of the rehabilitation efforts
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Costa, Daniel de Carvalho. "A atitude interdisciplinar docente e o desenvolvimento humano : foco no ensino médio de uma escola pública." Universidade de Taubaté, 2014. http://www.bdtd.unitau.br/tedesimplificado/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=645.
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Este estudo pretendeu investigar a existência das manifestações da atitude interdisciplinar entre os docentes e suas relações com o desenvolvimento humano no espaço escolar do Ensino Médio. Ele se justificou ao clarificar os conceitos básicos que sustentavam a pesquisa e que se apresentavam como precípuos em nossos dias interdisciplinaridade e desenvolvimento humano , articulando-os de modo a mostrar que a atitude interdisciplinar, quando vivida pelo docente, proporciona transformações positivas para o próprio professor e para os que o cercam. Fundamentaram essa investigação a teoria bioecológica do desenvolvimento humano, idealizada por Urie Bronfenbrenner, e a interdisciplinaridade fenomenológica, cuja representante maior é Ivani Fazenda. A partir da perspectiva de ambos, iniciou-se o diálogo com outros autores na construção da base teórica. Para oferecer concretude a esses pensamentos, utilizou-se a pesquisa qualitativa e como instrumento metodológico a Inserção Ecológica. Sua ligação com os ideais teóricos a colocou como escolha clara, visto que vislumbra os ambientes que influem na pessoa tal como solicita a teoria bioecológica, além de valorizar a subjetividade dos participantes e do pesquisador como quer a interdisciplinaridade. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que os professores que responderam à pesquisa apresentaram uma ideia parcial sobre a interdisciplinaridade, sem apresentar qualquer referência às suas diferentes perspectivas e princípios e sem qualquer efetivação prática. Contudo, algumas atitudes pautadas no dialogo, no respeito, na alteridade, superaram essa defasagem teórica, manifestando-se como interdisciplinares e tais atitudes, a partir do momento em que resgatam, atualizam e potencializam a identidade e os valores da pessoa e os coloca como elemento precípuo da relação recíproca com os outros e com o ambiente, apresentam-se como propulsoras do desenvolvimento humano.This study aimed at researching the existence of the interdisciplinary attitude manifestations between the teachers and their relations with human development in high school environment. It was justified by the basic concepts clarification that supported the research and that were presented as fundamental nowadays interdisciplinarity and human development , connecting them to show that if the teacher lives the interdisciplinary attitude, this generates positive transformations for himself/herself and for those who are surrounded him/ her. This investigation was based on bioecological theory of human development, thought by Urie Bronfenbrenner, and the phenomenological interdisciplinary, whose the main representative is Ivani Fazenda. From their perspective, the dialogue with other authors begins in the theoretical bases construction. Turning these concrete thoughts, it was used the qualitative research with Ecological Engagement as methodological instrument. Its link to the theoretical ideals places it as a clear choice, because it sees the environment which influences in the person as the bioecological theory asks, besides of value the participating and the researcher subjectivity as the interdisciplinarity wants. The results showed that the teachers who answered the research had a partial idea about interdisciplinarity, without presenting some reference of its different perspectives and principles and without some practice realization. Nevertheless, some attitudes guided by dialogue, respect and othernesse overcame these theoretical differences, appearing as interdisciplinaries. These attitudes, from the moment that they recover, update and potentiate persons identity and values and put them as preciput element of the mutual relation with the others and with the environment, show as generated of human development.
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Loubser, G. M. H. "A public theologian: a critical study of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen’s postfoundationalist facilitation of interdisciplinarity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20169.
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MacQuilkan, Kim Elizabeth. "The representation and practice of interdisciplinarity in health policy and systems research : a systematic review." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20516.
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The emerging field of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) developed from a variety of disciplines, orientated around the common research agenda of strengthening health systems, which are understood to be both complex and dynamic. The diversity of contributing disciplinary influences is a core feature of HPSR and hence the field is clearly defined as 'interdisciplinary'. However there has been a paucity of research conducted on interdisciplinarity within HPSR, with a lack of clarity on its conceptualization and practice. This study explores the representation of interdisciplinarity, and interdisciplinary practices within HPSR, utilising scoping and systematic review approaches. It is revealed that the term 'interdisciplinarity' (and its variations) have suffered from misuse and confusion. In particular, there is limited practice of an 'integrationist' interdisciplinary perspective and practice within HPSR - despite key HPSR authors supporting the integrationist approach due to its alignment with the HPSR scope of study to address complex health system problems. Over the last ten years, there has been a significantly increased output referenced as part of the HPSR field, however there is a scarcity of interdisciplinary research examples that have intentionally integrated multiple disciplinary influences. This research shows that current HPSR literature mainly reflects a 'generalist' interdisciplinary perspective (which only requires the presence of multiple disciplinary influences) rather than the integrationist perspective (which require intentional integration of influences). As a result, we propose improved approaches to framing, funding, and teaching interdisciplinary HPSR.
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Medalho, Pereira Isabel Maria. "Topics on the (Re)organization of Knowledge." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4080.
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Mi trabajo de investigación se centra en el estudio de problemas organizacionales en situaciones de colaboración. En particular, esta tesis se compone de tres capítulos en los que analizo problemas de incentivos en la investigación interdisciplinar y en acuerdos de colaboración entre empresas y universidades. El primero capitulo de mi tesis, "Incentives for Interdisciplinary Research", es (hasta el momento y según mi conocimiento) el primero trabajo que caracteriza formalmente la investigación interdisciplinar a través de complementariedad en la producción y desventaja innata en los costes para el desarrollo de una nueva área científica. Mi trabajo demuestra que cuando los objetivos de la investigación son suficientemente exigentes, la investigación interdiciplinar es preferible a la investigación especializada.
En el segundo capítulo de la tesis, "Business-Science Research Collaboration under Moral-Hazard", analizo cómo las características de acuerdos de colaboración son el resultado de un contrato óptimo entre las partes contratantes. Además, el tipo de acuerdo puede ser un importante instrumento de incentivo cuando algún (algunos) de los recursos importantes para la colaboración no son contratables. El análisis se hace en dos dimensiones: de la estructura del gobierno del acuerdo (descentralizada o centralizada), y de los problemas de información que esa estructura enfrenta. Aunque una estructura descentralizada siempre elije proyectos que están más cercanos a los intereses de la parte gobernante, las dos estructuras podrán utilizar el proyecto como mecanismo para reducir el efecto de riesgo moral.
El tercero capítulo de la tesis, "Patents and Business-Science Research Partnership" (escrito en conjunto con Walter Garcia-Fontes), presenta un estudio empírico que relaciona las características de patentes con el proceso de investigación que las precedieron. Utilizando datos de patentes europeas, los resultados de este capítulo están de acuerdo con las predicciones teóricas del capítulo anterior de esta tesis: la identidad institucional de las organizaciones que hacen la investigación se hacen visibles en las características de las patentes.
The research of my PhD dissertation focuses on the study of organizational problems, in the context of collaborative relations. In particular, the dissertation is composed by three chapters, in which I analyze incentives problems in interdisciplinary research and in collaboration agreements between firms and universities.
The first chapter of the thesis, "Incentives for Interdisciplinary Research", is (up to the moment and to my knowledge), the first article that formally characterizes interdisciplinary research: through the presence of complementarities in the production and through an innate cost disadvantage, when developing a new scientific area. My work shows that when the goals for the research are sufficiently demanding, interdisciplinarity is preferred to specialization.
In the second chapter of the thesis, "Business-Science Research Collaboration under Moral-Hazard", I analyze on how the characteristics of a research agreement can be the optimal outcome of a contract between the parties. Furthermore, the type of project can also be an importance incentive tool when some of the resources that are important for the success are non-verifiable and non-contractibe. The analysis is developed in two dimensions: the structure of partnership governance (decentralized and centralized), and the informational constraints that such structures may face. Even if a decentralized structure chooses a type of project that is closer to the interests of the governing party, both structures may optimally use the project as a mechanism to reduce the impact of moral-hazard.
In the third chapter of the thesis, "Patents and Business-Science Research Partnership" (jointly written with Walter Garcia-Fontes), I present an empirical study that relates the characteristics of the patents with the research process that lead to the inventions. Using data from the European Inventors Survey, PatVal-EU, the results of this chapter are aligned with the theoretical predictions of the previous chapter of the thesis: the institutional identity of the research organizations are associated with different basicness levels of the patens.
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Zolli, Angela. "Una lettura interpretativa delle comunita’ produttive al tempo della globalizzazione : Seggiolai e Impagliatrici & Donne, Fabbri e Coltellinai." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2033.
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Historiquement, dans la Région Frioul-Vénétie Julienne, le processus d’industrialisation est constitué par une imbrication dense d’expériences productives qui se sont développées dans les différents contextes locaux, et qui sont fondées aussi bien sur le syncrétisme des différentes modalités de production, le travail à domicile, artisanal et industriel, que sur le modèle de la pluriactivité des paysans dans les campagnes pour pallier les difficultés découlant de la saisonnalité. Dans le deuxième après-guerre, comme cela s’est produit dans le Centre et le Nord-Est de l’Italie, ont également vu le jour, dans la Région Frioul-Vénétie Julienne, les systèmes locaux de petites et moyennes entreprises dénommés « districts industriels ». Ce développement a été rendu possible grâce à un contexte local caractérisé par une imbrication étroite entre l’activité productive et les familles, par le sentiment d’appartenance au territoire, un système de valeurs fondées sur le travail, un langage technique partagé, et souvent par un epos, une histoire, un mythe des origines. Les trente dernières années, à partir des années 80, sont marquées par des changements historiques, comme l’informatisation croissante découlant des nouvelles technologies, et par conséquent le développement rapide de réseaux de production transnationaux, la croissance du commerce international, l’intégration internationale croissante enregistrée sur les marchés financiers, à savoir un réseau global en temps réel à l’échelle mondiale, une « grande transformation » caractérisée par le déplacement du centre de gravité mondial. Dans ce travail on analyse les processus de transformation de deux districts industriels dans la Région Frioul- Vénétie Julienne, celui de la chaise et celui des couteaux, pour comprendre à l’heure actuelle la relation qui existe entre les processus de transformation induits par la mondialisation et l'identité de la communauté, la capacité des communautés productives à s'adapter au changement, les opportunités et les perspectives. Du point de vue méthodologique il s’agit d’adopter une approche interdisciplinaire et capable de caractériser les processus de transformation socio-culturels et économiques qui se sont produits. La recherche est structurée en quatre parties. La première concerne l’approche théorique, l’identification de l’objet et la méthodologie de la recherche. La deuxième et la troisième partie concernent l’étude des deux communautés productives identifiées, à savoir la morphologie sociale, l'ethnographie et une lecture interprétative des processus de transformation. Il s'agit d’analyser les sources historiques et statistiques nationales, régionales et provinciales, et de compléter ces modèles d’analyse quantitatifs, essentiellement économiques et démographiques, avec des analyses qualitatives, réalisées localement, de type socio-anthropologique, destinées à identifier le système de valeurs qui caractérise les communautés examinées. Les points forts de l'ethnographie sont l'étude de la famille-entreprise, de la répartition du travail en fonction du sexe, de la culture matérielle, et de la coopération, tant dans le domaine public que dans le privé. La quatrième partie termine le travail avec l’analyse comparative des deux communautés productives examinées : les points de contact et les différences enregistrées et l'analyse d'un contexte beaucoup plus large, comme celui de l'Italie, ont contribué à l'herméneutique des communautés productives, et permis de corréler des faits sociaux apparemment distincts, en mettant en évidence certaines spécificités culturelles souvent ignoréesFrom the historical point of view, the industrialization process in Friuli Venezia Giulia consists of a close intertwining of various kinds of productions developed in different local areas and based on the syncretism of different production systems – cottage industry, handicraft and industrial production – and also on the multiple activity pattern of peasants living in the countryside to cope with the difficulties deriving from the seasonal character of their work.After the Second World War the local systems made of small and medium-sized enterprises – called industrial clusters – developed in Friuli Venezia Giulia as in the Centre and the North East of Italy. Such a development took place because the local context was characterized by the close intertwining of work and family, the feeling of belonging to the local area, a value system based on work, a common technical language and often an epos, namely a history, a myth of the origins.The last thirty years starting from the 80’s have been marked by epoch-making changes as the growth of IT and the following quick development of transnational production networks, the growth of international trade, the increasing international integration of international financial markets that amounts to a real time global network at world level and a “great transformation” characterized by the shift of the world economic centre of gravity.This work focuses on the analysis of the transformation processes that have taken place in two industrial clusters of the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia: the chair cluster and the cluster of Maniago to understand the relationship between the transformation processes brought about by globalization and community identity and the ability of production communities to adapt to change, opportunities and prospects. From the methodological point of view, this means adopting an interdisciplinary approach to describe the social, cultural and economic transformation processes occurred.The research consists of four parts. The first part describes the theoretical approach, the object identification and the research methodology. The second and the third part concern the study of the two identified production communities, namely social morphology, ethnography and provide an interpretative reading of transformation processes. They comprise the analysis of historical and statistical data at national, regional and provincial level. These quantitative analytical methods, mainly of economic and demographic nature, are then matched against qualitative analysis of socio-anthropologic nature carried out on the ground in order to identify the value system characterizing the communities under scrutiny. The strengths of ethnography are the study of the enterprise-family, of the division of work on the basis of gender, of material culture and cooperation at public and private level. The fourth and last part makes a benchmarking of the two production communities analysed. The contact points and the differences observed together with the analysis of a much wider context – the Italian context – contribute to the hermeneutics of production communities connecting social facts that are separate only on the surface and to highlight some cultural peculiarities that otherwise would have gone unnoticed
Nella regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, storicamente, il processo d’industrializzazione è costituito da un fitto intreccio di esperienze produttive sviluppatesi nei diversi contesti territoriali locali, fondate sia sul sincretismo dei diversi modi di produzione, lavoro a domicilio, artigianale e industriale, che sul modello della pluriattività dei contadini nelle campagne per rimediare alle difficoltà derivanti dalla stagionalità. Nel secondo dopoguerra anche nella regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, analogamente a quanto verificatosi nel Centro e nel Nordest dell’Italia, si svilupparono i sistemi locali di piccole e medie imprese denominati distretti industriali. Tale sviluppo fu reso possibile da un contesto locale caratterizzato da una stretta interpenetrazione dell’attività produttiva con la famiglia, dal senso di appartenenza al territorio, da un sistema di valori basato sul lavoro, da un linguaggio tecnico condiviso, e spesso da un epos, una storia, un mito delle origini. L’ultimo trentennio a partire dagli anni Ottanta è contraddistinto da cambiamenti epocali, quali la crescente informatizzazione determinata dalle nuove tecnologie e il conseguente rapido sviluppo di reti di produzione transnazionali, la crescita del commercio internazionale, la crescente integrazione internazionale registrata sui mercati finanziari ovvero una rete globale in tempo reale su scala mondiale, una “grande trasformazione” caratterizzata dal cambiamento del baricentro economico mondiale. In questo lavoro si analizzano i processi di trasformazione di due distretti industriali della Regione FVG, il distretto della sedia e di Maniago, per capire la relazione esistente tra i processi di trasformazione indotti dalla globalizzazione e l'identità della comunità, la capacità di adattamento delle comunità produttive al cambiamento, opportunità e prospettive. Dal punto di vista metodologico si tratta quindi di adottare un approccio interdisciplinare in grado di caratterizzare i processi di trasformazione socio-culturali ed economici intervenuti.La ricerca è articolata in quattro parti. La prima parte riguarda l'approccio teorico, l’identificazione dell’oggetto e la metodologia della ricerca. La seconda e la terza parte riguardano lo studio delle due comunità produttive individuate, cioè la morfologia sociale, l'etnografia e una lettura interpretativa dei processi di trasformazione. Si tratta di di analizzare le fonti storico-statistiche nazionali, regionali e provinciali, e di affiancare a questi modelli di analisi quantitativi, principalmente di tipo economico e demografico, delle analisi qualitative, svolte localmente, di tipo socio-antropologico finalizzate ad individuare il sistema di valori caratterizzante le comunità indagate. I punti forti dell'etnografia sono costituiti dallo studio della famiglia-impresa, della divisione sessuale del lavoro, della cultura materiale, e della cooperazione sia in ambito pubblico che privato. La quarta parte conclude il presente lavoro con l’analisi comparativa delle due comunità produttive indagate: i punti di contatto e le differenze registrati e l'analisi di un contesto molto più vasto, quale quello italiano, hanno contribuito all'ermeneutica delle comunità produttive correlando fatti sociali solo apparentemente distinti, e facendo emergere alcune specificità culturali altrimenti ignorate
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Passos, Ivan Carlin. "A interdisciplinaridade no ensino e na pesquisa contábil: um estudo do município de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12136/tde-03032005-144822/.
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Devido a uma preocupação com a qualidade do ensino contábil no Brasil, este estudo permitiu verificar que as atuais Diretrizes Curriculares do Curso de Ciências Contábeis possuem uma visão de preparar os alunos para enfrentar as rápidas mudanças do mercado. Além disso, o estudo favorece a constatação que, de acordo com esta visão, o termo interdisciplinaridade é citado diversas vezes no documento. Observa-se que o conceito é complexo e entendido de diferentes formas pelos autores da área educacional. Constata-se que existem os que entendem o conceito como um tipo de pesquisa, os que defendem como um nível de relacionamento entre as disciplinas e os que assumem ser uma atitude. O objetivo geral do trabalho foi verificar a existência de características interdisciplinares no ensino e na pesquisa dos cursos de graduação em Ciências Contábeis. A pesquisa foi dividida em três partes: na primeira, pesquisou-se, compilou-se e discutiu-se, por meio de uma revisão da bibliografia educacional, o conceito de interdisciplinaridade no ensino e na pesquisa; na segunda, pesquisou-se, compilou-se e discutiu-se, por meio de dados secundários, as características do ensino e da pesquisa contábil no Brasil; na terceira, realizou-se um censo dos coordenadores dos cursos superiores de Ciências Contábeis da cidade de São Paulo que participaram do Exame Nacional de Cursos de 2003, contrastando os dados primários com os conceitos sobre interdisciplinaridade encontrados. As duas hipóteses da pesquisa para a população analisada foram comprovadas, ou seja, há indícios de que o nível de relacionamento entre as disciplinas é baixo e da inexistência de características interdisciplinares no ensino e na pesquisa contábil. Recomenda-se maior atenção por parte das instituições para essas características, aumentando as formas organizadas de incentivo à pesquisa na graduação, aproximando os alunos de cursos diferentes, criando lógicas de distribuição das disciplinas em que um assunto seja mais ou tão importante quanto o cumprimento dos conteúdos. Para futuras pesquisas, são apresentadas sugestões: (i) uma extensão desta pesquisa para outros Municípios, Estados ou até mesmo para o Brasil como um todo; (ii) a escolha de um dos blocos de características analisadas para um aprofundamento; (iii) a utilização de outras técnicas de coleta de dados; (iv) a análise dos Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso dos cursos de graduação em Ciências Contábeis; e (v) um quadro comparativo entre e Brasil e outros países (e.g., EUA).In regards to the concerning of the accounting education quality in Brazil, this study allowed to establish that the current Curricular Lines of the Accounting Course have a vision to prepare the pupils to face the fast changes of the market. Moreover the study benefits the evidence that in accordance with this vision the term interdisciplinarity is quoted many times in the document. It observes that the concept is complex and it is understood in different forms by the authors of the educational area. It verifies that there are the ones that understand the concept as a type of research, the ones that defend as a level of relationship among the disciplines and the ones that assume to be an attitude. The general aim of the work was to verify the existence of interdisciplinary characteristics in the education and in the research of the Accounting graduation courses. The research was divided in three parts: in the first one, it was searched, compiled and argued by means of a review of the educational bibliography the concept of interdisciplinarity in education and in the research; in the second, it was searched, compiled and argued by means of secondary data the characteristics of the education and the accounting research in Brazil; in the third, a census of the coordinators of the Accounting superior courses of Sao Paulo city that took part of the 2003 National Examination Courses became fulfilled contrasting the primary data with the concepts found on interdisciplinarity. The two hypotheses of the research for the analyzed population were proved, in other words, there are signs that the level of relationship among the disciplines are low and the inexistence of interdisciplinary characteristics in the education and in the accounting research. It recommends larger attention on the part of the institutions for these characteristics, increasing the organized forms of incentive to the research in the graduation level, bringing together the pupils of different courses, creating logics of distribution where the subject be more or so important as the fulfillment of the contents. For future researches suggestions are offered: (i) an extension of this research to other Cities, States or even for Brazil as a hole; (ii) the choice of a deepening analysis for one of the blocks analyzed; (iii) the use of other techniques for data collection; (iv) the analysis of the Conclusion Course Works of the graduation level in Accounting; and (v) a comparative picture between Brazil and some other country. (United States for example).
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Moretti, Regina Celia Batista 1965. "Integração curricular no ensino médio : histórias narradas por professores a partir do Projeto PIBID Ciências da Natureza." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/319160.
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Orientador: Maria Inês Freitas Petrucci dos Santos RosaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Este trabalho de pesquisa aponta para possibilidades de integração curricular do Ensino Médio, em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, a partir de experiências vividas e narradas por professores das disciplinas, Biologia, Química e Física, no contexto de um projeto, do Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID), Ciências da Natureza: Integração Curricular no Ensino Médio. A questão formulada para essa pesquisa, a qual se constituiu em um referencial em torno do qual o trabalho se configurou, foi: Como uma experiência de um projeto de integração curricular interdisciplinar, no Ensino Médio, mobiliza identidades docentes ligadas às comunidades disciplinares? Foram fontes para este estudo, além das narrativas docentes, alguns textos de documentos oficiais e outros textos acadêmicos, analisados no intuito de perceber como professores podem ser interpelados sobre interdisciplinaridade e entendendo que tais textos, embora sejam significativamente marcados por intenções vindas de macro contextos, permeiam e são permeados por vozes vindas do micro contexto do cotidiano escolar. O andamento para produção desse trabalho, entre histórias e textos, foi realizado, metaforicamente, com olhar de um flâneur, um solitário que anda pela cidade em meio à multidão, sem se preocupar com as intencionalidades modernas do cenário urbano, consome o caminho a sua maneira, no seu tempo, vivendo experiências. As narrativas dos professores foram utilizadas como princípio, em uma perspectiva que privilegia a memória, inspirada em Walter Benjamim. Essas histórias contadas são adensadas em mônadas, compreendidas como uma forma de comunicação que ressignifica no presente, o papel das narrativas do passado, de comunicar experiências vividas. Nelas estão presentes marcas de conflitos nas identidades docentes e desafios, indicando as disciplinas como lugares de pertencimento e a interdisciplinaridade como objeto de choque. Esses professores especializados e que trabalham em um espaço-tempo distribuído em grades de horários, de acordo com cada uma das disciplinas, tiveram que, concomitantemente, se mobilizarem no sentido de inventarem outro espaço-tempo que possibilitasse um currículo integrado, para produção do projeto interdisciplinar. Em outras palavras, professores, como membros pertencentes às comunidades disciplinares, ao se chocarem com a interdisciplinaridade, experienciaram um momento de paralisação do que vinha acontecendo, rotineiramente, e tiveram oportunidade de mudar suas percepções sobre esse momento e sobre acontecimentos seguintes
Abstract: This research points to opportunities for curricular integration of high school in an interdisciplinary perspective from experiences narrated by teachers of disciplines, Biology, Chemistry and Physics in the context of a project, the Scholarship Program Initiation to Teaching (PIBID), Natural Sciences: Curriculum Integration in High School. The question formulated for this research was: As an experiment of a project of interdisciplinary curriculum integration, in high school, mobilizes teacher identities linked to disciplinary communities? It constituted a framework around which the work is set. We sought to also examine how teachers are challenged on interdisciplinarity in some texts of official documents and academic, understanding that such texts although significantly marked by welcoming intentions macro contexts, permeate and are permeated by voices from the micro context of everyday school life. The walk to produce this work, between stories and texts, was performed, metaphorically, with the look of a flâneur, a loner who walks the city in crowds without worrying about the intentions of the modern urban setting consumes the way your way, in his time, living experiences. The narratives of the teachers were used as a principle, in a perspective that prioritizes memory, inspired by Walter Benjamin. These stories are densified in monads, understood as a form of communication that rescues at present, the role of narratives of the past, to communicate experiences. In these markings are present conflict in the identities of teachers and challenges, indicating the disciplines as their places of belonging and interdisciplinarity as an object of shock. These specialized teachers and working in a space-time distributed scheduling in grids, according to each discipline, who had concomitantly mobilize in order to invent another space-time that would enable an integrated curriculum for production design interdisciplinary. In other words, teachers as members belonging to the disciplinary communities, to collide with interdisciplinary, experienced a moment of stoppage of what was happening routinely and had the opportunity to change their perceptions about this moment and on the following events
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Neto, José Elias Pinheiro. "Tessituras da paisagem cultural às margens do rio Capibaribe e no Recife sob a luz da poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-02062017-101821/.
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Esta tese tem como intuito interpelar a abordagem literária como objeto de investigação, revelando, pelo olhar geográfico, aspectos sociais e culturais contrapostos pela categoria paisagem a partir do estudo da obra de João Cabral de Melo Neto. O objetivo é, pelo estabelecimento de um diálogo entre Geografia e Literatura no sentido de articular as reflexões cognoscíveis representativas da realidade por meio da tênue linha separativa entre a ficção e o real, perceber as paisagens geográficas pelas tessituras textuais da poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto descritas ao longo do rio Capibaribe e na cidade do Recife. Para tanto, necessário se faz a apresentação de elementos formalizadores pela mostra da abordagem de interpretação literária por meio de investigação. Esta pode revelar ao pesquisador aspectos sociais, econômicos, culturais, históricos e físicos do objeto de investigação e ele o faz com o intuito em contrapor a paisagem real e/ou ficcional. Toda narrativa é uma paisagem e a paisagem narra, neste sentido, analisando as paisagens pela Literatura é possível explorar diversas possibilidades de estudo nos meandros da interdisciplinaridade. Esta análise interdisciplinar é possível porque traça as (dis)similitudes reveladas entre as paisagens percebidas pelos leitores e a carga subjetiva circundada nas cenas miméticas de realidades descritas nos textos literários. O procedimento metodológico está proposto a partir de uma análise da perspectiva da crítica literária como direcionamento contextual para a produção do conhecimento, este recurso faculta ao pesquisador diversas possibilidades para apresentar uma solução a um determinado problema. A busca parte das leituras da poética com enfoques para um diálogo entre a Geografia e a Literatura. Especialmente, estudando a categoria paisagem como formadora da construção do imaginário das cenas cabralinas do Recife e às margens do rio Capibaribe. A escrita lança um olhar geográfico ao conteúdo ficcional literário, este arcabouço poético pode, também como fonte histórica, oferecer experiência, aproximando-nos da realidade e conduzindo-nos a flagrantes das relações nas tramas que nos dão sustentação para lermos e percebermos a paisagem, seja ela real ou ficcional. As descrições do poeta deixam impressas marcas que evidenciam cenas de questões sociais e ambientais, que podem ser percebidas nos poemas Morte e vida severina, O rio: ou a relação da viagem que faz o Capibaribe de sua nascente à cidade do Recife e O cão sem plumas, indicando ao pesquisador novos olhares para observar o mundo. É neste sentido que este trabalho traça um percurso teórico sobre a paisagem para desvelar as percepções das relações descritas nos poemas cabralinos. Assim, as pesquisas que estabelecem o diálogo entre a Geografia e a Literatura contribuem para a compreensão das dinâmicas espaciais.This thesis aims at the interpellation of the literary approach as an object of investigation, revealing, through the geographic view, social and cultural aspects contrasted by the landscape category. The objective is, establishing a dialogue between Geography and Literature in order to articulate the knowable reflections representative of reality through the tenuous line separating between fiction and the real, to perceive the geographical landscapes by the textual fabric of the poetics of João Cabral de Melo Neto described along the Capibaribe River and in the city of Recife. For that, it is necessary to present formalizing elements by showing the approach of literary interpretation through of research. It can reveal to the researcher the social, economic, cultural, historical and physical aspects of the research object and he does so in order to counteract the real and/or fictional landscape. Every narrative is a landscape and the landscape narrates, in this sense, analyzing the landscapes through Literature, it is possible to explore various possibilities of study in the meanders of interdisciplinarity. This interdisciplinary analysis is possible because it traces the (dis)similarities revealed between the landscapes perceived by the readers and the subjective load surrounded in the mimetic scenes of realities described in the literary texts. The methodological procedure is proposed from an analysis of the perspective of literary criticism as contextual aim for the production of knowledge, this resource gives the researcher several possibilities to present a solution to a given problem. The search starts from the poetics readings with approaches to a dialogue between Geography and literature. Especially, studying the landscape category as a way of constructing the imagery of the cabralina scenes of Recife and the banks of the Capibaribe River. The writing casts a fictional literary content, this poetic framework can, also as a historical source, offer experience, approaching reality and leading us to flagrant relationships in the plots that give us support to read and perceive the landscape, whether real or fictional. The poet\'s descriptions leave imprinted marks that show scenes of social and environmental issues, they can be seen in the poems Morte e vida severina, O rio: ou a relação da viagem que faz o Capibaribe de sua nascente à cidade do Recife and O Cão sem plumas, indicating to the researcher new looks to observe the world. In this sense, it is that this paper traces a theoretical course on the landscape to unveil the perceptions of the relations described in the cabralinos poems. Thus, the researches that establish the dialogue between Geography and Literature contribute to the understanding of spatial dynamics.
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Baviera, Bruna Valquiria. "Interdisciplinaridade e interprofissionalidade: percepções dos profissionais envolvidos no atendimento ambulatorial do idoso." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100141/tde-07122017-220906/.
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A interdisciplinaridade e a interprofissionalidade são componentes essenciais da Gerontologia e do trabalho em equipe no atendimento de saúde do idoso. Entretanto, dificuldades podem surgir para a real implementação destes conceitos na prática gerontológica. Este estudo visou levantar as percepções de uma equipe de profissionais que atua em um ambulatório especializado no atendimento gerontológico a respeito da interdisciplinaridade e da interprofissionalidade em sua formação e cotidiano de trabalho com idosos. Trata-se de pesquisa descritiva, de natureza qualitativa, sob influência de alguns pressupostos alinhados à hermenêutica gadameriana. O instrumento utilizado para coleta dos dados foi um questionário semiestruturado desenvolvido pela pesquisadora e a realização de um grupo focal. Os dados foram categorizados por meio da técnica de análise de conteúdo proposta por Minayo. Participaram da pesquisa 21 profissionais de diferentes áreas de formação, que responderam o questionário que continha perguntas sobre suas percepções e sobre o contato que tiveram com os conceitos em sua formação acadêmica e profissional. Dentre estes profissionais, 12 vivenciaram o grupo focal para discussão sobre o tema. Os principais resultados apontaram que estes profissionais conseguem enxergar a importância da interdisciplinaridade e da interprofissionalidade em sua atuação profissional, mesmo que alguns deles tenham dificuldades em definir os conceitos, sendo que os que manifestaram tal dificuldade tinham um maior tempo de experiência na atuação gerontológica. Apontaram ainda que 48% deles revelaram contato com os conceitos em sua graduação e 80% tiveram durante sua pós-graduação. Os participantes também sinalizaram barreiras e fatores facilitadores para aplicar os conceitos em prática, apresentando aspectos do relacionamento com outros profissionais e questões institucionais. Frente a esses resultados percebeu-se a necessidade de observação mais próxima da prática destes profissionais visando verificar se de fato os conceitos abordados na teoria estão presentes no cuidado prestado aos idosos. Salienta-se sobre a importância do papel institucional na educação permanente destes profissionais e o compromisso ético e de responsabilidade dos mesmos em se manterem atualizados em relação aos temas centrais da gerontologia e do trabalho em equipeInterdisciplinarity and interprofessionality are essential components of gerontology and teamwork in elderly health care. However, difficulties can arise for the real implementation of these concepts in gerontological practice. This study aims to raise the perceptions of a team of professionals who work in an outpatient clinic specialized in gerontological care regarding interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality in their training and daily work with the elderly. It is a descriptive research, of qualitative nature, under the influence of some assumptions aligned to the Gadamerian hermeneutics. The instrument used for data collection was a semi-structured questionnaire developed by the researcher and the accomplishment of a focal group. The data were categorized by means of the content analysis technique proposed by Minayo. Twenty-one professionals from different training areas participated in the study, who answered the questionnaire that contained questions about their perceptions and about the contact they had with the concepts in their academic and professional training. Among these professionals, 12 experienced the focus group to discuss the theme. The main results pointed out that these professionals can see the importance of interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality in their professional performance, even though some of them have difficulties in defining the concepts and those who manifested such difficulty had a longer experience in gerontology. They also pointed out that 48% of them revealed contact with the concepts in their graduation and 80% had during their postgraduate studies. Participants also flagged barriers and facilitating factors to apply the concepts in practice, presenting aspects of the relationship with other professionals and institutional issues. In view of these results, it was noticed the need for closer observation of the practice of these professionals in order to verify if in fact the concepts covered in the theory are present in the care given to the elderly. It is emphasized the importance of the institutional role in the permanent education of these professionals and the ethical commitment and responsibility of these professionals to keep up to date of the central themes of gerontology and teamwork
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Martins, Leilane Rigatto. "Moda, arte e interdisciplinaridade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-13052013-134330/.
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A presente pesquisa estuda arte e moda buscando relacionar as duas áreas de conhecimento por meio das teorias interdisciplinares. A parte principal da pesquisa se concentra no estudo de três atos interdisciplinares ocorridos entre os artistas contemporâneos Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami e Vanessa Beecroft produzidos em parceria com Marc Jacobs, diretor criativo da Louis Vuitton. Esses casos de estudo foram selecionados levando em conta o encontro entre moda e arte que busca enfatizar a ação benéfica da arte no produto de moda e da moda no campo da arte. A partir desses casos são levantadas questões pertinentes aos campos da arte, do design e da moda, evidenciando a troca entre eles, em que permeiam a complexidade que demanda um processo integrativo. Há interesse em investigar a qual tipo de interdisciplinaridade cada ato interdisciplinar atende, bem como estudá-los sob um olhar filosófico, sociológico e também sob algumas teorias da arte. Entende-se que o estudo interdisciplinar da moda relacionado a outras áreas concorre para formalizar a pesquisa neste campo.This research studied art and fashion trying to relate the two areas of knowledge through interdisciplinary theories. The main part of the research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of three acts occurring among contemporary artists Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Vanessa Beecroft produced in collaboration with Marc Jacobs, creative director of Louis Vuitton. These cases were selected taking into account the encounter between fashion and art that emphasizes the beneficial action of the art in fashion product and fashion in art. From these cases are raised issues pertaining to the fields of art, design and fashion, showing the exchange between them, in which permeate the complexity that demands an integrative process. There is interest in investigating which type of interdisciplinarity meets every act and study them under a philosophical, sociological look and also under some theories of art. It is understood that the interdisciplinary study of fashion related to other areas contributes to formalize research in this field.
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Souza, Regina Maria de. "Léxico, língua e intertextualidade bíblica em Memorial do Cristo I e II de Dinah Silveira de Queiroz." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4327.
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Esta pesquisa apresenta a obra Memorial do Cristo, de autoria de Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, em seus dois volumes: Eu Venho e Eu, Jesus. Esses dois livros juntos narram uma única história, a autobiografia de Jesus Cristo. Esta tese discute os aspectos lingüísticos e literários, sendo focalizados principalmente o léxico que caracteriza a intertextualidade com a Bíblia, o campo semântico e a estrutura sintático-gramatical. Um capítulo foi dedicado ao estudo de fatos relativos à vida da autora por influenciarem de forma significativa o seu estiloThis research presents Memorial do Cristo, by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, in its two volumes: Eu Venho e Eu, Jesus. These books together present one single story, Jesus Christs autobiography. This thesis discusses the linguistic and literary textual aspects, focusing mainly on the lexicon that characterizes the intertextuality with the Bible, the semantic field and the syntactic and grammatical structure. One chapter has been dedicated to facts of the life of the author because they have significantly influenced her style