Exploring Avenues to Interdisciplinary Research
Exploring Avenues to Interdisciplinary Research

Author: M. Karanika-Murray

Publisher: 5m Books Ltd

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1907284192

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Spanning a variety of disciplines such as education, psychology, law, architecture, media, and health care, this collection presents the latest contributions on interdisciplinary theory and practice. Through the point of view of new interdisciplinarians, this compilation discusses the exciting developments as well as the current problems and challenges in the field. A result of the first Cross-Disciplinary Research Conference held at the University of Nottingham, this volume illustrates the various approaches and applications of interdisciplinary research. From the arts to biomedical neuroscience, the areas exemplified are as multifaceted as the topic itself.

RESTART Sustainable Business Model Innovation
RESTART Sustainable Business Model Innovation

Author: Sveinung Jørgensen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3319919717

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Taking the business model as point of departure, this open access book explores how companies and organizations can contribute to a more sustainable future by designing innovative models that are both sustainable and profitable. Based upon years of research, it draws together theoretical foundations and existing literature on the topic of sustainable business alongside case studies and practical solutions. After examining the theoretical foundations of sustainable business model innovation, the authors present their own framework – RESTART. Consisting of seven factors, this framework can be the basis for restarting any business model. The final section outlines a research agenda for sustainable business informed by the perspectives and frameworks put forward in this book.

Interdisciplining Digital Humanities
Interdisciplining Digital Humanities

Author: Julie Thompson Klein

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 047212093X

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Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an overview for specialists and a general audience alike. It is the only book that tests the widespread claim that Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary. By examining the boundary work of constructing, expanding, and sustaining a new field, it depicts both the ways this new field is being situated within individual domains and dynamic cross-fertilizations that are fostering new relationships across academic boundaries. It also accounts for digital reinvigorations of “public humanities” in cultural heritage institutions of museums, archives, libraries, and community forums.

Interdisciplinary Discourse
Interdisciplinary Discourse

Author: Seongsook Choi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1137470402

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This book uncovers exactly what is involved when researchers from different disciplines engage with one another in research projects. The authors identify the opportunities and difficulties involved in interdisciplinary engagement, and challenge current claims about where the greatest difficulties are to be found. The first part of the book introduces interdisciplinarity and identifies key issues that influence our understanding of it. The second part of the book presents the findings of research based on over 50 hours of recording and nearly 450,000 words of transcript drawn from a number of university faculties, concluding with a discussion of how this might inform interdisciplinary practice. The book is accessible to the non-specialist reader while also being of interest to social scientists working in professional and academic communication.

Exploring Professional Communication
Exploring Professional Communication

Author: Stephanie Schnurr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0415584817

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This book will provide a comprehensive overview of the field of professional communication from an applied linguistics perspective and introduce core concepts and approaches to this key field of academic enquiry.

"Bridging Boundaries: Multidisciplinary Research in Science, Commerce and Humanities”

Author: Prof. (Dr.) M. K. Patil

Publisher: Laxmi Book Publication

Published: 2024-04-21

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1304461149

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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 depicts a dystopian society where technology, particularly in the form of mass media and censorship, plays a central role in controlling and manipulating the populace. However, the novel also explores the paradoxical relationship between technology and human connection, highlighting both its potential for liberation and its capacity for oppression. This research paper aims to analyze the multifaceted portrayal of technology in Fahrenheit 451, examining its role in fostering isolation and conformity while also exploring its subversive potential as a tool for resistance and introspection. Through a close reading of the novel's themes, characters, and narrative structure, this paper elucidates Bradbury's nuanced commentary on the complex interplay between technology, knowledge, and freedom.

Re-discovering Age(ing)
Re-discovering Age(ing)

Author: Núria Casado-Gual

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2019-07-31

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 3839443962

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Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the ›wise teacher,‹ fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volume explore wisdom in old age through a series of narratives of mentorship which, either from a critical or a personal perspective, undermine ageist views of later life.

Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development

Author: Thomas S. Weisner

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2005-02-15

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0226886646

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Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen. To understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methods—the state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike. This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts. Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues of human development, education, and social welfare, and among professionals charged with the task of improving the lives of children in our communities.

Methods and Interdisciplinarity
Methods and Interdisciplinarity

Author: Roger Waldeck

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1119681537

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Interdisciplinarity research results from a growing need for multi-perspective methods, and knowledge on complex and multifaceted objects of study. It is not simply scientific research that involves several disciplines, but ultimately, the aim is confronting this knowledge and if possible articulating it coherently. Using specific examples, Methods and Interdisciplinarity categorizes the different modes of interdisciplinarity and discusses the mechanisms of hybridization between them. On the one hand, the book shows how the same issue can be treated according to various points of view from several disciplines, which can give rise to complementary or even contradictory knowledge. On the other hand, it illustrates how methods from some disciplines make it possible to articulate the qualitative or quantitative approaches of others.