Interdisciplinary Research: How Big a Challenge to Traditional Fields?.

Winkler, Karen J.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Interdisciplinary Research: How Big a Challenge to Traditional Fields?

Winkler, Karen J.

Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n6 pA1,14-15 Oct 7 1987

Interdisciplinary research is seen as coming of age across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with interdisciplinary thought most substantive in the sciences. For that reason, some observers suggest that the gulf between scientific and humanistic learning may be widening. (MLW)

Descriptors: Change, Higher Education, Humanities, Intellectual Disciplines, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research, Sciences, Social Sciences, Trend Analysis, Womens Studies

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