Disciplines in the making : cross-cultural perspectives on elites, learning, and innovation /
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| Author / Creator: | Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | viii, 215 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7906049 |
| Summary: | The organisation of higher education across the world is one of several factors that conspire to foster the assumption that our map of the intellectual disciplines is, broadly speaking, valid cross-culturally. Disciplines in the Making challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion and science. Lloyd focuses especially on the historical and cross-cultural datathat throw light on how these disciplines were constituted and defined in various civilisations, especially ancient Greece and China, on the roles, both positive and negative, of elites in those processes, and onhow and within what limits innovation occurred. The issues are relevant to current educational policy in relation to the ever-increasing specialisation that we see, especially in the sciences, and to the difficulties encountered in making the most of opportunities for inter- or trans-disciplinary research. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 215 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199567874 0199567875 |