TAILIEUCHUNG - Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 4

Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 4. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of over half of the world's population that is already residing in large cities. Its interdisciplinary research and practice focus is a welcome innovation. | Interdisciplinarity and Theories of Knowledge 11 new methods in our own field. Imagine having to stay on top of two or three fields to stay current. Learning what you do and do not need to know to move beyond your own discipline is a critical skill for interdisciplinary researchers. The chapters in this volume suggest some of the strategies these authors have used including the value of interdisciplinary colleagues as sources of guidance and information. Institutional obstacles also hamper interdisciplinary research. As we have discussed interdisciplinary approaches with our colleagues we heard several stories from faculty members who had been warned by their departmental chairs not to stray too far from their own discipline. Tenure and promotion they were told depended on publishing in their disciplinary journals and using methods and theories with which their colleagues were familiar. In our own university while administrators were supportive of our development of interdisciplinary approaches to urban health research and teaching the practical questions of who gets overhead release time and teaching credit arose with every effort. Like others we often found that disciplinary approaches elicited fewer questions and concerns forcing us to consider whether the extra effort our interdisciplinary initiatives required was worth the benefits. In the final chapter we review some of the methods the authors of these chapters have used to overcome the challenges posed by their choice of interdisciplinary approaches. INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE A fourth theme that several authors consider is the intersection between interdisciplinary and social constructivist perspectives. Social constructivists believe that reality is produced and reproduced by people acting on their interpretations and their knowledge of the In disciplines like anthropology history and some schools of thought in political science and sociology scholars point out that the answers

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