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Subject(s)

• Integration (Theory of knowledge) [Browse]
• Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge [Browse]
• Interdisciplinary approach in education [Browse]
• Human information processing [Browse]

Related name

• Benson, Garth, 1943- [Browse]
• Glasberg, Ronald [Browse]
• Griffith, Bryant [Browse]

Series

• Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 39. [More in this series]
• Counterpoints ; v. 39

Summary note

• Addressing itself to the problem of knowledge fragmentation, this collection of essays seeks to develop strategies from a variety of perspectives: scientific, religious, and pedagogical. The newly founded Association for the Unity and Integration of Knowledge has assembled this material from its inaugural conference held at the University of Calgary in 1994.
• Taking interdisciplinary studies beyond the mere juxtaposition of disciplines for the purpose of solving specific problems, the essays in this collection focus on the more general problem of integrating different kinds of understanding in a non-sectarian manner.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: The (Re)Unification of Knowledge: Why? How? Where? When? / Allen R. Utke
• Pt. I. The Scientific Perspective. 2. Nature and Human Nature: Impacts and Implications of Science Since 1859 / Donald A. Crosby and Charles R. Smith. 3. The Integrative Role of "Why" Questions in Science / Garth Benson. 4. Objective Science as the Subjective Projection of Culture onto Nature: Rethinking the Problem of Enlightenment / Ronald Glasberg. 5. Faraday Is the Answer: What Is Your Interdisciplinary Question? / Allen R. Utke
• Pt. II. The Theological Perspective. 6. The Integration of Knowledge in Ecumenical Science / Peter Staples. 7. Conditions for Religious Progress in the Contemporary Developed World / Georges Helal. 8. Literature and Religion: Theory to Practice / John L. Mahoney
• Pt. III. Pedagogical and Technological Perspectives.
• 9. Milestones: Integrating the Celebratory Elements of Individual Achievement and Family Tradition into the Curriculum / Leslie Owen Wilson. 10. Interdisciplinary Teaching: Intertextuality or Strange Attractors? / Charles Elkins, Robert Hogner and Felice Lifshitz [et al.]. 11. A Multiple-Intelligence View of Learning at the High-School Level / Ellen Weber. 12. The Integrated Structure, Content, and Methods Approach in HOCS-Oriented Teacher Education / Uri Zoller. 13. Constructing, Deconstructing, and Synthesizing Knowledge Narratives / Bryant Griffith and Jim Paul. 14. Information Technology and the Breakdown of Places of Knowledge / Doug Brent
• Pt. IV. Conclusion. 15. Mapping the Interdisciplinary Landscape: A Knowledge-Unification Strategy / Ronald Glasberg.

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ISBN

0820434876 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96032418

OCLC

35236282

RCP

C - S

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