Interdisciplinary Discourse
Communicating Across Disciplines
1st Edition
Published on 30. March 2017
XI, 300 pages
978-1-137-47040-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is appropriate for anyone seeking to implement interdisciplinary practice across a multidisciplinary team (rather than an interprofessional team). The authors, Choi and Richards, explain interdisciplinary discourse as well as provide the tenets of its practice. Findings are empirically evidenced, and inferences from research are justified. Terms and concepts employed within the book are explained and brought to the forefront through concrete examples." (Bronte Diduck, Journal of Interprofessional Care, jicareblog.org, October, 2017)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XI, 300 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.
File size
2,95 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-47040-9 (9781137470409)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-47040-9
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
04/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
€128.39
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Persons
Seongsook Choi is a lecturer in the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK. Her current research focuses on interdisciplinary talk, the development of analytical tools for mapping interactional patterns, and representing these dynamically in visual formats.
Keith Richards worked at the Universities of Aston and Warwick, UK, but is now retired. His publications include Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL , Language and Professional Identity , and Research Methods for Applied Language Studies (with Steven Ross and Paul Seedhouse).
Keith Richards worked at the Universities of Aston and Warwick, UK, but is now retired. His publications include Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL , Language and Professional Identity , and Research Methods for Applied Language Studies (with Steven Ross and Paul Seedhouse).
Content
- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The disciplinary landscape.- Chapter 3. Understanding interdisciplinarity.- Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary interaction.- Chapter 5. Knowledge exchange in initial meetings.- Chapter 6. The collaborative construction of knowledge.- Chapter 7. Disciplinary identity.- Chapter 8. How leadership works.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
