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Interdisciplinary Discourse

Communicating Across Disciplines

Keith Richards author Seongsook Choi author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:10th Apr '17

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This book uncovers exactly what is involved when researchers from different disciplines engage with one another in research projects. The authors identify the opportunities and difficulties involved in interdisciplinary engagement, and challenge current claims about where the greatest difficulties are to be found. The first part of the book introduces interdisciplinarity and identifies key issues that influence our understanding of it. The second part of the book presents the findings of research based on over 50 hours of recording and nearly 450,000 words of transcript drawn from a number of university faculties, concluding with a discussion of how this might inform interdisciplinary practice. The book is accessible to the non-specialist reader while also being of interest to social scientists working in professional and academic communication.

“This book is appropriate for anyone seeking to implement interdisciplinary practice across a multidisciplinary team (rather than an interprofessional team). The authors, Choi and Richards, explain interdisciplinary discourse as well as provide the tenets of its practice. Findings are empirically evidenced, and inferences from research are justified. Terms and concepts employed within the book are explained and brought to the forefront through concrete examples.” (Bronte Diduck, Journal of Interprofessional Care, jicareblog.org, October, 2017)​

ISBN: 9781137470393

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 5056g

300 pages

1st ed. 2017