Matt’s Notes
Hey there, folks! We are continuing our dive into pan-and-or-interdisciplinarity! As might be ascertained, we have opinions! And then some!
If you can’t handle the video, the audio is another exit from bedlam! #ednontech
As with my previous comments, written relatively concurrently to these… the best thing for all involved is simply to get this thing out the (bedlam) door!
I have much affinity for the aesthetic framing I was quickly able to assemble behind the scenes for this episode! I am such a huge, huge fan of the UK punk band Leatherface, as well as all associated acts and particularly the writing of Frankie Norman Warsaw Stubbs! It is the work of another podcast and time to speak to the depths of debt to Frankie… simply from the standpoint of being a fan of an artist who I have listened to more than nearly any other, and whose words and singing voice move me in ways I’m challenged to describe whether speaking aloud to the thing, or the writing… as the case may be!
The ongoing discussion of interdisciplinarity and/or challenges associated with these kinds of approaches is Doug, through and through (and through)! I am grateful to the ways he continues to push the boundaries of what this show seeks to address!
And so, in the interests of scale and efficiency, I will leave that there! Much gratitude and respect to anyone checking out our show and/or these notes for any reason whatsoever!
Doug’s Notes
Academic disciplines and silos
The ideal situation is one in which the teacher of every science leads the student to see the larger relations of the subject, especially with the disciplines that are closely akin. The relations of physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and psychology ought to be suggested by the specialists in those fields.
Dodson, G. R. (1908). The function of philosophy as an academic discipline. The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, 5(17), 454-458.
Disciplinary classifications originated in the early 19th century to categorize different fields of seemingly discrete knowledge within the European academy, becoming refined and deepened in the West in the 20th century.
Stichweh, R. (2001). History of scientific disciplines. International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences, 13727-13731.
The new interdisciplinarians sometimes point at the problem that academic work generally happens within narrow and possibly arbitrary or artificial disciplinary boundaries, which sometimes prevents academics seeing the close connections of different phenomena and also of the different disciplines.
Krishnan, A. (2009). What are academic disciplines. Some observations on the disciplinarity vs. interdisciplinarity debate, 1-59.
Despite the significant social processes that underline the division of labor between the modern disciplines, disciplines are fundamentally founded cognitive structures of shared sets of concepts, questions, references and methods This is also the basis of disciplines’ cognitive territories.
Tellmann, S. M. (2022). The societal territory of academic disciplines: How disciplines matter to society. Minerva, 60(2), 159-179.
A silo mentality is defined as follows:
An attitude found in some organizations that occurs when several departments or groups do not want to share information or knowledge with other individuals in the same company. A silo mentality reduces efficiency …
Friedman, H. H. (2018). How the creation of too many academic departments stifles creativity, encourages a silo mentality, and increases administrative bloat. Encourages a Silo Mentality, and Increases Administrative Bloat (January 2, 2018).
Word of the Podcast
Silo
Question of the Podcast
How can we reduce the cognitive territories that limit knowledge creation?
Phrase of the Podcast
Administrative bloat is a great phrase.
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Do people have a favourite Canadian poet?
If we were more grateful, it would be unnatural! Until whenever is next!
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