ENBUS102 Lecture Notes - European Anti-Fraud Office, Language Barrier
25 Sep 2012
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Traditional scholars- all-encompassing approach": plato- philosophy of unified science", leonardo da vinci- renaissance scholar, too much to know. Emergence of disciplines in the 19th century. Characteristics: recognisable communities of scholars, specific technical language and particular methods of analysis, particular standards of evaluation, common location for scholarly debate, common curricula for teaching. Any comparatively self contained and isolated domain of human experience which possesses its own community of experts (nissani, 1997. p. 203) Exclusivity and rigidity (salter and hearn, 1996) World is complex need alternate approach to make sense of it. Act of bringing together different disciplinary perspectives on the same problem. People work in parallel to one another. Bring together distinctive components of two or more disciplines (nissani, 2003) Moderator knows a little about each discipline; works as administrator. Different kinds of people are attracted to different kinds of disciplines: people are different with varied strengths, weaknesses, interests and dis- interests. Different academic cultures: language barrier, how to integrate.
