Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities

by Julie Thompson Klein

Overview

This book is the most comprehensive and rigourous critique of the ways disciplinary boundaries still inhibit knowledge-production and integration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813916798
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	11/01/1996
Series:	Knowledge, Disciplinarity and beyond Series
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities at Wayne State University. She is the author of Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice and coeditor of Interdisciplinary Studies Today.

What People are Saying About This

William G. Doty

Crossing Boundaries demands to be read, as the most comprehensive and rigourous critiqe of the ways disciplinary boundaries still..inhibit knowledge-production and -integration. Exhaustive bibliographic citation; sharply written analyses; intuitive screw-drivering that demonstrates how strenuously we ignore how research/teaching still attend to primarily medieval models, while even today's elementary students are ready to boogie. Klein's important work will be influential in changing academe for years to come.

Editorial Reviews

Crossing Boundaries demands to be read, as the most comprehensive and rigourous critiqe of the ways disciplinary boundaries still..inhibit knowledge-production and -integration. Exhaustive bibliographic citation; sharply written analyses; intuitive screw-drivering that demonstrates how strenuously we ignore how research/teaching still attend to primarily medieval models, while even today's elementary students are ready to boogie. Klein's important work will be influential in changing academe for years to come.

William G. Doty

"Crossing Boundaries demands to be read, as the most comprehensive and rigourous critiqe of the ways disciplinary boundaries still..inhibit knowledge-production and -integration. Exhaustive bibliographic citation; sharply written analyses; intuitive screw-drivering that demonstrates how strenuously we ignore how research/teaching still attend to primarily medieval models, while even today's elementary students are ready to boogie. Klein's important work will be influential in changing academe for years to come. "—William G. Doty, University of Alabama

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