disciplinarity

But the most exciting and unpredictable unintended consequence of disciplinarity is the opportunity it creates for poaching, which happens when one discipline opts out of the gentleman’s agreement allotting certain questions to certain disciplines and starts answering questions it is not even supposed to ask.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The necessity of interdisciplinary poaching 2006

Unlike some faculties I've heard about, we are not worshipers at the temple of sub-disciplinarity: faculty members feel comfortable commenting on papers far outside their own specialties, and they are usually right to do so as the distant perspective sometimes proves at least as valuable as the insider's.

Discourse.net: Ten Reasons Why You Should Teach Here -- And Three Why You Shouldn't (v. 3.0) 2009

Unlike some faculties I've heard about, we are not worshipers at the temple of sub-disciplinarity: faculty members feel comfortable commenting on papers far outside their own specialties, and they are usually right to do so as the distant perspective sometimes proves at least as valuable as the insider's.

Discourse.net: Ten Reasons Why You Should Teach Here -- And Three Why You Shouldn't (v. 2.0) 2008

The rise of inter-disciplinarity has not diminished the hyper-specialization in the academy, and the resultant pursuit of status through esoteric language has deepened the gulf between humanists and the public.

Michael Roth: Good and Risky: The Promise of a Liberal Education 2010

Her research concerns the interactions between reading, writing and disciplinarity.

Archive 2008-06-01 Rosie Redfield 2008

Another trend referred to two related areas – increased user-centeredness and increased inter-disciplinarity.

Archive 2008-02-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008

The question is whether that is going to pull discussion here apart due to our disciplinarity.

Is Terra Nova Aging? 2008

By limiting the kinds of questions that can be posed, departmental thought intentionally screens out certain features of reality, and while this partial blindness can be counted as a necessary condition of modern knowledge, it creates the conditions for an interdisciplinary reaction that blends two or more approaches to achieve results unobtainable by either: hence biochemistry, sociobiology, genetic engineering, architectural ethics and countless other innovations that are virtually invited by the limitations of disciplinarity.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The necessity of interdisciplinary poaching 2006

Her research concerns the interactions between reading, writing and disciplinarity.

Learning to think/write like a scientist Rosie Redfield 2008

So the argument for “normal” disciplinarity makes a certain kind of sense, and I oppose it only because I have the professional luxury to do so.

Academic Instincts and Virtual World Studies 2006