Nader Shahamat; Hamid Reza Arasteh; Fatemeh Shahamat; Maryam Roozagar
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Academic interdisciplinaries demand their own specific standards of excellence. This study attempts to design a conceptual model and to edit its structural indices in university and descriptive-analytic method is used in it. For this reason, at first conceptual dimensions of the structure have been identified ...
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Academic interdisciplinaries demand their own specific standards of excellence. This study attempts to design a conceptual model and to edit its structural indices in university and descriptive-analytic method is used in it. For this reason, at first conceptual dimensions of the structure have been identified and appropriate indices and criteria have been designed and edited on the basis of those factors. The population survey includes documents and reports exist in information databases that are accessible to the researcher with regard to the research topic, and sampling has been characterized by the use of purposeful sampling. Results of the study reveals that in order to develop an academic interdisciplinary structure one has to pay attention to the five conceptual dimensions Including interdisciplinary philosophy, conditions and situations, selection, balance and mass participation, as well as five main factors in strategies for making interdisciplinary structure which includes: policies, management and organizational structure, infrastructure support, leadership, support and supervision, funding, the officialism. So in this research to create an interdisciplinary structure, factors, specific criteria and indicators were identified and designed.
Hamid Javedani; Jafar Tofighi
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It is almost three decades since the polemic challenges over the conceptualization ,comprehension and the ways of implication of interdisciplinary education and studies have been faced.These challenges, taking root from epistemological and methodological deficiencies of disciplinary knowledge in explaining ...
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It is almost three decades since the polemic challenges over the conceptualization ,comprehension and the ways of implication of interdisciplinary education and studies have been faced.These challenges, taking root from epistemological and methodological deficiencies of disciplinary knowledge in explaining and resolving complex issues of the real life ,still need to be taken up seriously. Regarding the short history of theorization in the field of Interdisciplinary Studies ,the suitable methodology for this study could be a critical analysis of theories and common thoughts in the field. The research findings of this theoretical study focus on conceptual integration ,alternative and critical thinking as the core issues which seem a prerequisite for the progress of Interdisciplinary Studies. Additionally, Interdisciplinary Studies are based on team interaction more than individual efforts. Factors like funding, professional orientation and institutional support, constitute the main contextual forces influencing interdisciplinarity .And also epistemological factors ,team factors and problem solving are the important factors in conducting interdisciplinary researches
