Finding solutions in an interdisciplinary environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz ◽  
Ana Corbalan ◽  
Najeem Shajahan
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Changing World

<div> <p>Our rapidly changing world is facing challenges that increasingly demand strong interdisciplinary components in academic projects to find the solutions we need. Successful interdisciplinary research can enhance knowledge and hence lead to new discoveries and innovation. In order to successfully work together in projects that span multiple disciplines, it is important to fully understand the challenges these projects face. We revisit the meaning of interdisciplinarity and evaluate why it has often proven very challenging. For example, one of the greatest challenges is finding a common ground when framing key research questions. We analyze and present an ideal scenario, where challenges and limitations are acknowledged but overcome, and suggest some techniques that can be used to plan and successfully undertake interdisciplinary projects.  </p> </div><div> <p> </p> </div>

Learning Real-Life Lessons From Online Games

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Lange
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Life Lessons ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Games have received increased scholarly attention due to the economic value they generate. Yet, some studies still conceptualize games as ‘‘virtual’’ realms that are theoretically distinct from ‘‘real world’’ experiences. Based on an ethnographic investigation of two online, text-based gaming environments, this study analyzes dynamics such as technical acculturation, access to technical knowledge, and opportunities for self-expression by studying social interaction that occurred in non-revenue-generating games. Frameworks that focus on dynamics such as in-game conversation in broader game-centric domains or ecologies should be considered to accommodate a wider variety of gaming forms and related interdisciplinary research questions. Different games have different consequences, and it is important to understand the varying consequential contexts that games afford. Whether or not the consequences may be measured economically, it is nevertheless important to consider how social interactions may complicate forms of self-expression in ways that impact the human spirit.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary research in the context of the development of educology

Osvitolohiya ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Svetlana Sysoieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Education History ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Qualitative Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The article shows that the widening of the subject field of modern pedagogy requires research that goes beyond the boundaries of discipline and acquires the features of inter- and multidisciplinarity; a new qualitative level of research in education can be provided on the principles of educology as a scientific direction of an integrated study of the field of education that focuses on objects and phenomena with a «rigid» and broad type of interdisciplinarity that goes beyond the established subject of pedagogy; the criterion for distinguishing pedagogical researches and studies in the field of educology (education sciences) is defined – «the type of interdisciplinary study». Pedagogical research in its essence always differs by the soft type of interdisciplinary, since the research of purely pedagogical phenomena and processes requires «narrow» interdisciplinarity: in such studies, the integration of close to the methodology and paradigms of scientific disciplines. Studies on education (education studies) can always be attributed to the «rigid» type of interdisciplinarity, since such studies have a «broad» interdisciplinarity: methods, concepts and / or theories of sciences that have little compatibility (philosophy of education, history of education, Cultural education education, education management, educational policy and educational law, economics of education, sociology of education, etc.). The stimulation of interdisciplinary research in education should take place through educational programs, the creation of various centers and the establishment of inter-institutional contacts, as well as the development of a financial policy to support such research, the creation of mechanisms for coordinating and supporting interdisciplinary projects in the field of education at the national and supranational levels. The leader in interdisciplinary research, according to most forecasts, will be social and humanitarian sciences as well as life sciences.

scholarly journals True and pseudo-interdisciplinary researches: The principles of a system-structural approach to the medical-and-psychological projects planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
N.E. Kharlamenkova ◽  
N.A. Yeskin ◽  
A.I. Snetkov ◽  
A.D. Akinshina ◽  
S.Y. Batrakov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Object Of Study

The actual problem of interdisciplinary projects organizing is discussed. The purpose of the article is to justify the principles of planning and conducting the interdisciplinary medico-psychological research, in identifying its features in comparison with pseudo-interdisciplinary approaches. Types of interdisciplinary research are examined, distinctions are made between the true and pseudo-interdisciplinary approaches. The principles of true interdisciplinary research are formulated — the principle of choosing the object of study, the principle of determining the coordinates of the subject area of research, the hypothetico-deductive principle of interdisciplinary research and the principle of unity of interdisciplinary project methodology. The content of each principle is revealed by the example of medico-psychological research currently being carried out by the team of employees of the Institute of Psychology RAS and the National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics named after N.N. Priorov. It is shown that the system-structural approach to conducting the interdisciplinary medico-psychological research consists in coordinating theoretical constructs and empirical variables in accordance with the given coordinates of the research subject field and specific criteria for assessing the physical and mental state of the object of study. It is shown that the selected criteria allow, without leveling the specifics of individual scientific disciplines — medicine and psychology — to form a unified subject field of research and to develop an approach relevant for solving scientific and practical problems.

scholarly journals The Common Ground of Open Access and Interdisciplinarity

Publications ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Patrick Gamsby
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
The Common

In recent years, Open Access and interdisciplinarity have emerged as two prevalent trends in academia. Although seemingly separate pursuits with separate literature, goals, and advocates, there are significant interconnections between these two movements that have largely gone unnoticed. This paper provides a philosophical inquiry into the unexplored relationship between these two trends and makes the case that there is an intrinsic affinity between Open Access and interdisciplinarity and, as such, concludes that all interdisciplinary research, to remain true to the foundational tenets of interdisciplinarity, ought to be Open Access.

Enhanced Interaction in Mixed Social Environments

2009 ◽  
pp. 146-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Oliverio ◽  
Dennis Beck
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Strategic Learning ◽  
American University ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Virtual World Environments ◽  
Enhanced Learning

We introduce the term ‘mixed social environments’ as a strategic learning construct to augment student interaction when utilizing virtual world environments such as Second Life in the classroom. While an increasing number of institutions are investigating the use of virtual world environments for enhanced learning, at present there are at least three major areas that are underdeveloped: interdisciplinary research, documentation of best practices, and exploration of the use of mixed social environments. In the spring of 2007, a new interdisciplinary research seminar addressing these aspects was offered at a large American university. We present an overview of the resultant learning artifacts, outcomes, and research questions in hopes of helping to inform best practices, expand interdisciplinary research, and assist in the design of future mixed social environments for enhanced learning.

Exploring the Common Ground of Virtual Communities

2002 ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Dirksen ◽  
Bas Smit
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Constructive Work ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
The Common ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of

A great deal of the literature on virtual communities evolves around classifying the phenomenon1 while much empirically constructive work on the topic has not been conducted yet. Therefore, the research discussed in this paper proposes to explore the actual field of the virtual community (VC). By means of a comparative ethnographic research, virtual communities are to be defined in terms of their inherent social activity, the interaction between the groups of people and the information and communication technology (ICT), and the meanings attached to it by its members. This chapter will report on the initial propositions, research questions and approach of the explorative research of working towards a “workable definition” of virtual communities. It will also present its “work to be done” which will ultimately form the basis of moving beyond defining virtual communities, i.e., actually designing and deploying one.

Pitfalls in the Organization of Interdisciplinary Research

1951 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Caudill ◽  
Bertram Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Organizational Problems

It is our purpose here to point up some of the organizational problems of collaboration which have not been as explicitly set forth as they might in previous discussions of methodology in interdisciplinary work. We feel this is useful because we believe that in the future many of the major advances in knowledge will be made by intellectually and emotionally congenial people from several disciplines who, working together, will cross ordinary academic boundaries in their search for insight. Each of the authors had worked on a number of interdisciplinary projects before collaborating, as anthropologist and psychiatrist, on several current investigations. The thoughts presented here have been stimulated by discussions arising out of this work.

scholarly journals Relevance of interdisciplinary approach in humanities: The Thing. Conceptual and Cultural Aspects (2018) as an example of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research

2019 ◽  
pp. 295-310
Author(s):  
Piotr Cymbalista ◽  
Agnieszka Kallaus
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Bulgarian Academy ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The purpose of this article is to discuss the merits of interdisciplinary research in the humanities. The discussion is conducted on the example of the volume entitled The Thing. Conceptual and Cultural Aspects, edited by Teresa Dobrzyńskaand Raya Kuncheva (2018). The volume approaches the issues of perception and presence of material objects in the linguistic picture of the world, viewed from the perspective of various humanistic disciplines, such as philosophy, semiotics, linguistics and literature. This interdisciplinary research is also cross-cultural in character, being the result of the studies of Bulgarian, Polish and Slovenian scholars from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the New Bulgarian University, the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. This effective mode of research provides a common ground for discussion and opens the space for dialogue between respective scholars, the disciplines they represent and the readers, going beyond the limitations of specific research areas and producing an overall picture of the object.

scholarly journals A Model for Developing Interdisciplinary Research Theoretical Frameworks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. CohenMiller ◽  
Elizabeth Pate
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Research Questions

Embedded in interdisciplinary research, just as in disciplinary research, are statements of purpose, theoretical frameworks, research questions, reviews of literature, methodology, findings, recommendations, and more However, one of the least understood aspects of interdisciplinary research is the interdisciplinary research (IDR) theoretical framework. This article is intended to serve as a platform for dialogue within and across disciplines about interdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks. In addition, it provides a model for developing an IDR theoretical framework through an illustrative example of how an IDR theoretical framework was created and used within a dissertation study. We conclude the article noting critical elements about IDR and IDR theoretical frameworks for students and researchers to consider for enhancing their research.

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