Interdisciplinarity for sale: Logics of knowledge, labour markets and consumerism

Milian, Roger Pizarro; Missaghian, Rod

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“…These arrangements, by adding, and even blending, multiple perspectives are deemed to generate richer findings than would be possible within single disciplines. The assumption is that interdisciplinarity generates better research than single discipline research (Pizarro Milian and Missaghian 2018 ).…”

Section: Challenging Assumption 2: Interdisciplinary Approaches Are Imentioning

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Problematizing assumptions about interdisciplinary research: implications for health professions education research

Albert

Friesen

Rowland

et al. 2019

Adv in Health Sci Educ

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This article critically examines three assumptions underlying recent efforts to advance interdisciplinary research-defined in this article as communication and collaboration between researchers across academic disciplines (e.g. Sociology, Psychology, Biology)and examines these assumptions' implications for health professions education research (HPER). These assumptions are: (1) disciplines are silos that inhibit the free flowing of knowledge across fields and stifle innovative thinking; (2) interdisciplinary research generates a better understanding of the world as it brings together researchers from various fields of expertise capable of tackling complex problems; and (3) interdisciplinary research reduces fragmentation across groups of researchers by eliminating boundaries. These assumptions are among the new beliefs shaping the contemporary academic arena; they orient academics' and university administrators' decisions toward expanding interdisciplinary research and training, but without solid empirical evidence. This article argues that the field of HPER has largely adopted the premises of interdisciplinary research but has not yet debated the potential effects of organizing around these premises. The authors hope to inspire members of the HPER community to critically examine the ubiquitous discourse promoting interdisciplinarity, and engage in reflection about the future of the field informed by evidence rather than by unsubstantiated assumptions. For example: Should research centres and graduate programs in HPER encourage the development of interdisciplinary or disciplinary-trained researchers? Should training predominantly focus on methods and methodologies or draw more on disciplinary-based knowledge? What is the best route toward increasing the field's profile within academia and attracting the best students and researchers to engage in HPER? These are questions that merit attention at the current juncture as the future of the HPER field relies on decisions made in the present time.

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Section: Challenging Assumption 2: Interdisciplinary Approaches Are Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Problematizing assumptions about interdisciplinary research: implications for health professions education research

Albert

Friesen

Rowland

et al. 2019

Adv in Health Sci Educ

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Marketing Christian higher education in Canada: a ‘nested’ fields perspective

Milian

Rizk

2019

Journal of Marketing for Higher Education

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Promoting the future of innovative higher education through thousands of master's programmes

Fehér

Géring

Király

2022

SocEc

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This paper discusses how leading innovative universities and their master's programmes reflect rapidly changing social-economic technological trends. The increasing focus on the STEM subjects, the changing profile of business and MBA programmes, and the ratio of interdisciplinarity provide insights into the development of future-oriented higher education. In the scope of this study, 2,708 master's programmes were surveyed globally based on their online representation, and 1,750 training programmes from this list were analysed in terms of employability rankings. According to our findings, Western Europe offers the largest number of master's programmes. STEM studies are overrepresented at the top innovative universities, and interdisciplinary studies account for fifteen percent of the programmes. Additionally, business studies with interdisciplinary programmes were identified in a higher proportion as compared to business-only studies. The findings signal the labour market's preferences toward future-oriented, personalised and responsive knowledge. The present study contributes to future education through a global analysis, and supports the strategy creation of higher education institutions (HEIs). Therefore, this article is especially informative to representatives, policy makers or researchers at future-oriented HEIs.

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Interdisciplinarity for sale: Logics of knowledge, labour markets and consumerism

Cited by 4 publications

References 98 publications

Problematizing assumptions about interdisciplinary research: implications for health professions education research

Problematizing assumptions about interdisciplinary research: implications for health professions education research

Marketing Christian higher education in Canada: a ‘nested’ fields perspective

Promoting the future of innovative higher education through thousands of master's programmes

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