The interdisciplinarity revolution

Science, interdisciplinarity, and the society

Scientific research is organized within a range of different disciplines. Besides some historical contingence, the recent landscape of academics reflects mainly divisions between different objects, terminologies, theories, and methods, which are represented by the specific disciplines. Correspondingly, a huge number of (sub-) disciplines have been established until now. Research within these di...

Interdisciplinarity and the Prospect of Complexity Interdisciplinarity and the Prospect of Complexity : The Tests of Theory

William Newell’s theory of interdisciplinary studies is a timely proposal since complexity is a keyword in contemporary descriptions of interdisciplinarity. Like any other theory, it is subject to a series of questions: (1) Is the theory generalizable, and is it reductive? (2) What relationship does it have to prior theories? (3) Does the theory drive practice, or vice versa? and (4) Is it frui...

Interdisciplinarity in Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Interdisciplinarity in economic education

Argument for Interdisciplinarity in economic education: society, as a whole, needs education to know whether the “social products” are good. We may discuss about a lot of social needs or problems. Solving those means the development and implementation of educational programs. Therefore, a program of education, which includes, among other, the economic education, irrespective of its level, can b...

EnGendering Design: Implementing Interdisciplinarity

In addition to the ongoing dearth of women and other minorities in STEM fields, there are increasing reports of sexism in Silicon Valley at all levels. Such gendered biases get written into the technologies designers and developers create. We discuss the value developing interdisciplinary connections and gaining indepth and nuanced understandings of gender theories could have for creating techn...