Ekologia interdyscyplinarności
The Ecology of Interdisciplinarity
Contributor(s): Jerzy Axer (Editor), Marek Konarzewski (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: interdisciplinarity in science; interdisciplinary research; ecology of interdisciplinarity
Summary/Abstract: A collective work of the researchers representing various academic disciplines, areas of expertise and fields of science as well as different generations, which aims to present interdisciplinarity as an essential element of research activity. The scholars share their experience and thoughts relating – directly or indirectly – to advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinary practices.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5352-6
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5344-1
- Page Count: 270
- Publication Year: 2021
- Language: Polish
Jak wiele jest ekologii?
Jak wiele jest ekologii?
(How Many Ecologies?)
- Author(s):Joanna Pijanowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:23-32
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:ecology; interdisciplinarity; conceptual confusion
- Summary/Abstract:In the title „How many ecologies” there is a question concerning a phenomenon, which – for many years – we have witnessed and perhaps even caused, namely the appropriation of the term “ecology” by various scientific disciplines, organisations and individuals, which use it in an entirely different meaning from the original one. The term “ecology” was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel to define the science of our home (gr. oikos), living organisms and their relations with the non-living (abiotic) and living (biotic) environment to which other organisms belong.
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Możliwości i trudności badań interdyscyplinarnych na przykładzie socjo-hydrologii
Możliwości i trudności badań interdyscyplinarnych na przykładzie socjo-hydrologii
(The Possibilities and Difficulties of Interdisciplinary Research on the Example of Socio-Hydrology)
- Author(s):Piotr Matczak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:33-44
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:socio-hydrology; water; interdysciplinarity
- Summary/Abstract:The research carried out into hydrology aims to describe water processes in order to provide practical guidelines in water resources management. The hydrological and technical research approach and the resulting practical implications have visible limitations. This paper reviews the concept of socio-hydrology, a specific approach that has emerged within hydrology that implies the need to consider the social aspect in water research. The reasons for the emergence of socio-hydrology are briefly discussed, followed by the characteristics of this approach. Finally, the author discusses the benefits and difficulties of this type of interdisciplinary research.
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O znaczeniu geografii jako nauki interdyscyplinarnej
O znaczeniu geografii jako nauki interdyscyplinarnej
(The Role of Geography as Interdisciplinary Science)
- Author(s):Tomasz Zarycki
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:45-55
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:geography; spatial planning; cartography; critical social sciences
- Summary/Abstract:The present text is devoted to the transformation of the role of geography, both in the general system of science and in the broader social context of recent decades. In particular, I point to the multidimensional crisis of this discipline of knowledge, which is interpreted in several ways. Meanwhile, geography as a well-rooted and multithreaded discipline can be considered as a space of interdisciplinarity in the best sense of the word. In such a role it allows avoiding many of the weaknesses of the currently developing spontaneously interdisciplinary movement. The text also indicates the important social role of geography as a science upholding public interest, especially in the use of common resources such as nature, space or the city. Therefore, the crisis of geography, especially in the Polish context, is interpreted as a phenomenon which is unfavourable both for the development of interdisciplinary science, and for social development, especially in the conditions of exacerbating pathologies connected with the so-called neoliberal tendencies in contemporary economy.
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Anty anty-interdyscyplinarność
Anty anty-interdyscyplinarność
(Anti Anti-Interdisciplinarity)
- Author(s):Piotr Kulas
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:57-66
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:sociology of knowledge; knowledge – power; control; field of scientific productivity; Michel Foucault
- Summary/Abstract:The text aims to draw attention to the ambivalence of interdisciplinarity in science. The author argues that specialization and interdisciplinarity are the two sides of the process forming the modern field of scientific production. Science is a specific kind of knowledge and needs non-scientific knowledge for self-approval. The formation of modern scientific disciplines is determined by the will to know and describe reality. It is, however, entangled in audit relations. A scientific statement must be written into the theoretical horizon. Disciplines impose limits on who, where and on what conditions can speak on particular subjects. Science is a kind of bureaucracy controlling scientific undertakings and scholars, whose aim is to maintain boundaries between disciplines. It allows controlling the quality of the conducted research. The presented text outlines the research project on interdisciplinarity in social sciences, with particular reference to sociology. The author points to the major advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinarity in sociology. He also argues that sociology developed as science closely linked to other disciplines. Interdisciplinarity of sociology should be of ecological character and used wherever it can bring a cognitive benefit.
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Małe itinerarium interdyscyplinarne (studium przypadku 1970–2020)
Małe itinerarium interdyscyplinarne (studium przypadku 1970–2020)
(A Little Interdisciplinary Itinerary (a Case Study 1970–2020).)
- Author(s):Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:67-80
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:interdisciplinarity; comparative studies; interdisciplinarity etiquette; paideia; humanitas; artes reales; nature and culture; traditional knowledge paradigm versus postmodernism; ecology
- Summary/Abstract:The author describes her own experiences in interdisciplinary studies, from the turn of the 1980s to the present. She outlines research concepts, from intuitive activities in the field of humanities to contemporary, more methodologically conscious approaches. She recalls conferences, publications and research projects carried out at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, which aimed to bring the humanities and life sciences together. She reflects on the reasons for the complete destruction of the primary community of sciences and arts, which existed in culture from Antiquity to the end of the early modern era. She sees them in the changes of the anthropological model, in particular in rejecting the ideal of paideia (humanitas). Finally, she presents and reflects on the propositions concerning interdisciplinary research, selected from the current status quaestionis.
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Historyk sztuki na bez-ludzkiej ziemi
Historyk sztuki na bez-ludzkiej ziemi
(An Art Historian on No-Human Land)
- Author(s):Maria Poprzęcka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:81-98
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:art; planetary disaster; anthropocene
- Summary/Abstract:The text aims to point to major methodological problems faced by modern history of art. They are caused and at the same time challenged by the processes taking place in modern art, such as ecological activism and various actions undertaken in response to climate change, threats to the natural environment, littering of the earth, etc. Faced with these activities and artistic processes, dominant in modern art, traditional research instruments appear to be inadequate and useless. Art science has to develop adequate theoretical concepts and establish appropriate criteria, notions and terms.
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Słonie Dalego
Słonie Dalego
(Dalí’s Elephants)
- Author(s):Monika Stobiecka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:99-111
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:elephant; archaeological imagination; Salvador Dalí; Hannibal; surrealism; art/archaeology; vitalizing the past
- Summary/Abstract:In 1967, between Cointrin and Meyrin in Switzerland, an unusual happening was to take place. The most famous Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí, was planning to cross the Alps accompanied by a young Indian elephant, transported for the occasion to Switzerland by Air India. The elephant was waiting for the artist in a nearby stable, causing great dismay to horses living there. On 21 September, when this art event was supposed to occur, Dalí called off his arrival and commended to transport the young elephant to Figueres in Spain, where he lived. What is highly controversial from today’s point of view, is not the ostentatious cancellation of the happening, generously sponsored by Air India, but the instrumentalization of the animal which was to be used in reconstructing the historical crossing of the Alps by the Carthaginian commander in 218 B.C. The standard interpretations of the surrealists’ works would point to understanding Dalí’s intentions to show an elephant as an archetype and fetish by making an oppressive gesture toward the animal again. However, watching the intended “spectacle” in the category of “archeological imagination”, which does not belong to the history of art, and probing Dalí’s attitude to the past in his other works, it is possible to see the non-existent work in the perspective affirming the controversial reconstruction as "sui generis" revitalizing of the past.
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Ekoteologia w dialogu z naukami przyrodniczymi i społecznymi
Ekoteologia w dialogu z naukami przyrodniczymi i społecznymi
(Ecotheology in Dialogue with Natural and Social Sciences)
- Author(s):Stanisław Jan Rabiej
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:113-125
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:ecotheology; religious environmentalism; ecological crisis; green encyclical
- Summary/Abstract:Ecotheology as a new field among the theological sciences tries to create a theological foundation for ecology and environmental protection. Taking into account the interdisciplinary perspective, it tries to establish a dialogue with natural and social sciences. At the same time, it creates the space for ecumenical meeting. The threat of ecological disaster unites people of different faiths and world views. The study is an attempt to justify to what extent ecotheology can help formulate a response to the contemporary ecological crisis. This task is only possible in connection with the achievements of such disciplines as: cosmology, evolutionary biology, ethics, social anthropology and cultural studies. Among the already existing attempts at such extensive research, it is worth taking into account the publications of Thomas Berry (functional cosmology) or John Zizioulas (ethical protology).
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Dziki Mąż, krajobraz i perspektywa zwrotu ekologicznego
Dziki Mąż, krajobraz i perspektywa zwrotu ekologicznego
(The Wild Man, Landscape and the Ecological Turn Prospect)
- Author(s):Jan Kieniewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:127-142
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:nature; environment; social system; Republic of Poland; identity; complex thinking
- Summary/Abstract:The eponymous Wild Man is aware of his place in nature. The article presents the view that interdisciplinary research, which brings human and earth sciences together, requires an ecological turn in humanities. A good example of such research is the analysis of the transition and transformation process of the Polish society after 1989. In order to carry out this project it is necessary to consider the trajectory of Poland’s history seen from a civilizational perspective since modern times. A system method, which consists in presenting landscape as a process uniting society and environment, is suggested for this purpose. The proposed research should result in adopting a new paradigm of science derived from complex thinking.
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Recepcja koncepcji symbiogenezy Lynn Margulis w nowym materializmie na podstawie tekstów Donny Haraway i Myry Hird
Recepcja koncepcji symbiogenezy Lynn Margulis w nowym materializmie na podstawie tekstów Donny Haraway i Myry Hird
(The Reception of Lynn Margulis’ Endosymbiotic Theory in New Materialism on the Basis of Donna Haraway and Myra Hird’s Texts)
- Author(s):Krzysztof Skonieczny
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:143-151
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:social sciences; evolution; Lynn Margulis; Donna Haraway; Myra Hird
- Summary/Abstract:The endosymbiotic theory developed in the late 1960s by a biologist Lynn Margulis, according to which eukaryotic cells and multicellular organisms were created by the cyclical symbiosis of simpler cells, complicated the neo-darwinian picture of the evolution as a process driven solely by competition. Although Margulis’ discoveries coincided with increased interest in environmental and animal issues – the so-called animal or environmental turn – their proper reception within these sciences took thirty years, until the times of so-called new materialisms, a group of theories based on earlier post-structuralist thought, albeit rejecting its constructivism and seeking agreement with natural sciences. The endosymbiotic theory was an attractive inspiration for new materialists, who rejected – characteristic of Western philosophy – the understanding of matter as a passive material, and were skeptical about neo-darwinism they suspected to be eugenic and sexist. Author analyses the reception of Margulis’ concept in the works of two new materialists, Donna Haraway and Myra Hird. Haraway is inspired by symbiogenesis in "The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness" and in one of the chapters of "Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene" when she formulates the concept of community of different human and non-human players influenced by Whitehead’s ontology of relations. Hird in her book "The Origins of Sociable Life. Evolution after Science Studies" shows how symbiogenesis can (or should) influence social sciences and understanding of the interpenetration of evolutionary and cultural forces.
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Biohumanistyka (rozpoznanie wstępne)
Biohumanistyka (rozpoznanie wstępne)
(Biohumanities (Initial Findings). Abstract)
- Author(s):Ewa Domańska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:153-173
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:biohumanities; integration of sciences; complementarism
- Summary/Abstract:Since the late 1990s, there has been a transformation both of traditional understandings of the humanities as a field where humans as social beings are central and of the commonplace opposition of interpretative and experimental sciences. What is evident is a revival of discussions on the integration of the humanities and natural sciences. In this text, I offer an analysis of particular contexts in which the term “biohumanities” appears alongside an outline of selected cases where there has been a crossing of the biological and the social. My research here shows that the current “biological turn” in the humanities and social sciences is leading to fundamental transformation of understanding of the human, life, kinship, lineage and community, as well as of emotions, consciousness, and free will. In bringing about the integration of the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and Earth sciences, biohumanities (alongside ecohumanities and geohumanities) often offers a way of transcending “cultural determinism”. The examples of complementary research presented here on the ontology of human remains and the environmental history of mass graves demonstrate that the monoculture of the humanities and social sciences often limits and indeed sometimes prevents the development of interesting research questions that would expand knowledge on particular phenomena. It can even leave certain questions out of bounds as it promotes hermeneutics as the fundamental mode of analysis.
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Gaia 2.0 według Bruno Latoura
Gaia 2.0 według Bruno Latoura
(Gaia 2.0 according to Bruno Latour)
- Author(s):Marek Konarzewski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:175-186
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Actor-Network Theory; Gaia Hypothesis; Bruno Latour; interdisciplinarity
- Summary/Abstract:Bruno Latour is one of the most influential social scientists shaping perception of natural sciences among non-natural scientists. Yet, his views remain largely unknown to natural scientists. Conversely, scientific intricacies of the Gaia hypothesis, in particular its recent version dubbed Gaia 2.0, developed by Bruno Latour and Timothy Lenton, are unfamiliar to humanists and social scientists. Here I briefly present Latour’s ideas, chiefly the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to natural scientists, and foundations of the Gaia hypothesis to nonspecialists. I then discuss the relevance and usefulness of the ANT and Gaia 2.0 in addressing global challenges, primarily climate change, through interdisciplinary collaboration of science, social science and humanities.
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Różnorodność i równość w epoce genomu
Różnorodność i równość w epoce genomu
(Diversity and Equality in the Age of Genome)
- Author(s):Paweł Golik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:187-199
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:genome; genetic diversity; equality; biological determinism; human evolution
- Summary/Abstract:Recent advances in the study of the human genome resulted in a wealth of new discoveries of interest not only to biologists, but also to scholars working in social sciences and humanities. There remains, however, considerable distrust and lack of communication between the representatives of these diverse fields. Can the biological vision of the human animal, informed by genomics, be reconciled with the humanist approach? In this essay I argue that the approaches offered by biology and the social sciences and humanities are complementary rather than contradictory. Evolutionary continuity between humans and other forms of life, made apparent by comparative genomics, adds an important voice to the ecocritical, non-anthropocentric, and posthumanist discourse in the humanities. Modern human genetics reveals that human traits are the product of complex networks of interactions between multiple genes and the environment, rejecting the outdated notions of biological essentialism and simplistic genetic determinism. Similarly, comparative genomics unravels complex and intertwined histories of human populations, refuting the idea of racial essentialism rejected by cultural anthropology. Modern biology, social sciences, and humanities can find a common platform to study complex human and posthuman realities.
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Ekologia interdyscyplinarności w świetle amerykańskiej debaty o nauce w dobie Trumpa oraz COVID-19
Ekologia interdyscyplinarności w świetle amerykańskiej debaty o nauce w dobie Trumpa oraz COVID-19
(The Ecology of Interdisciplinarity in View of the American Debate on Science in Times of Trump and COVID-19)
- Author(s):Jan Miernowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:201-212
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:academic freedom; interdisciplinarity; American Association of University Professors; “war on science”; political correctness; alternative facts; climate change denial; “pluriverse”; Donald Trump
- Summary/Abstract:This article highlights the limitations of disciplinary approaches to science and scholarship. Such limitations are painfully visible when academic freedom is under attack, as was the case during the so-called “war on science” conducted by the Trump administration. Because of their disciplinary nature, many defense mechanisms deployed in defense of academic freedom proved to be of limited efficiency. Such was the case with the 2020 declaration of the American Association of University Professors, as well as Judith Butler’s descending opinion on this declaration. As an alternative, I point to Bruno Latour’s ecologically inspired conception of interdisciplinarity. Latour’s interdisciplinary thinking is based on three principles: the metaphysic of “pluriverse,” the politics of “compositionism,” and the epistemology of “translation.” I consider Latour’s interdisciplinarity to be an efficient tool in engaging the world of politics and ecology within and outside academia.
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Mieczysława Limanowskiego hermeneutyka miasta: Toruń
Mieczysława Limanowskiego hermeneutyka miasta: Toruń
(Mieczysław Limanowski’s Urban Hermeneutics: Toruń)
- Author(s):Maria Kalinowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:213-224
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Mieczysław Limanowski; Toruń; Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; Vilnius University; “imagination” in science; “experiencing” in science and art; geology; Reduta Theatre
- Summary/Abstract:The text concerns the picture of Toruń in the works of Mieczysław Limanowski (1876–1948), a geologist, art critic and the co-founder of the Reduta Theatre, a professor of universities in Vilnius and Toruń. The author shows the interdisciplinarity of Limanowski’s works and his combining of scientific research and artistic creativity. Cities, especially Toruń and Vilnius, were of special interest of the artist as they united natural order and culture, history and space. The article is an attempt to approach Limanowski’s works in an interdisciplinary way.
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Homo qu(a)erens animal albo filolog między kulturą a naturą
Homo qu(a)erens animal albo filolog między kulturą a naturą
(Homo qu(a)erens animal or a Philologist between Culture and Nature)
- Author(s):Robert A. Sucharski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:225-235
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:parrot; Hellenistic culture; Roman culture; zygodactyly
- Summary/Abstract:The paper describes problems that a philologist may encounter when translating/interpreting/commenting on ancient texts about a parrot. Due to its foreignness and relatively late appearance in the Mediterranean world, the parrot is a good example of the difficulties encountered by a philologist working without the support of a zoologist. The parrot as a case example is at the same time a kind of synecdoche of much more complex problems, always appearing at the interface of disciplines.
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Poza centrum uwagi: doświadczenie uczenia w szkole i w laboratorium neurobiologa
Poza centrum uwagi: doświadczenie uczenia w szkole i w laboratorium neurobiologa
(Out of the Spotlight: Teaching Experience in School and in the Neurobiologist’s Laboratory. Abstract)
- Author(s):Kalina Burnat
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:237-247
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:learning; motivation; reward; eyesight; central and peripheral vision
- Summary/Abstract:In this paper I use my experience in teaching biology in primary school and in working as a neurobiologist, who trained laboratory animals to discriminate visual stimuli, in the context of learning and motivational theories. The short account of my struggles to understand my pupils’ learning problems, find solutions for keeping their attention on the task and motivate their individual learning processes is given. The article consists of two parts: the first describes my work with animals at the laboratory, and the second at school with pupils having mild neurodevelopmental disorders. Thanks to work with pupils, I was able to write the handbook accessible for all students, from which shortened chapters are quoted here. I explain how to introduce the difficulty of tasks gradually, and how to monitor the level of motivation. The main goal of my scientific research is to find the source for the near to normal vision in visually impaired subjects. I assume now that the cortical representation of the peripheral visual field might be a good target for visual rehabilitation and subserve as reservoir of plastic potential for the injured visual brain. Peripheral vision not only covers the large part of the visual field, but also actively participates in attentional selection of events to be processed by central vision. However, it was understudied for years.
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Lekcje latania, czyli ekologia interdyscyplinarności w programie „Our Mythical Childhood”
Lekcje latania, czyli ekologia interdyscyplinarności w programie „Our Mythical Childhood”
(Flying Lessons, or the Ecology of Interdisciplinarity in the Programme “Our Mythical Childhood”. Abstract)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Marciniak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:249-264
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Our Mythical Childhood; Classical Antiquity; reception; Luis Sepúlveda; Enzo D’Alò; children’s literature
- Summary/Abstract:This chapter presents the concept of “ecology” as a cultural community, one pillar of which is Classical Antiquity. The author discusses this issue by analyzing the reception of Greek myths in the novel by the Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda "The Story about a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly" and its animated film adaptation by the Italian director Enzo D’Alò. Reflections on these two cultural texts are placed in the broad context of the ideas advanced by the interdisciplinary research programme “Our Mythical Childhood”, created in 2011 by the author, who continues to run it at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw by leading an international team of specialists in such disciplines as childhood studies, classical philology, modern literatures, archaeology, history, folk studies, education, media studies, and children’s neuropsychiatry.
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Refleksje o książce "Ekologia interdyscyplinarności"
Refleksje o książce "Ekologia interdyscyplinarności"
(Reflections on the book "The Ecology of Interdisciplinarity")
- Author(s):Małgorzata Rygielska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:265-269
- No. of Pages:5
- Keywords:interdisciplinarity in science; interdisciplinary research; ecology of interdisciplinarity
- Summary/Abstract:A collective work of the researchers representing various academic disciplines, areas of expertise and fields of science as well as different generations, which aims to present interdisciplinarity as an essential element of research activity. The scholars share their experience and thoughts relating – directly or indirectly – to advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinary practices.
- Price: 4.50 €