Wednesday, January 10, 2018

"Inconsistencies in the Governance of Interdisciplinarity: Lessons from the Italian Higher Education System



University of Bergamo. Source: HERe research http://www.here-research.it/it/
Davide Donina
In recent decades, science studies have increasingly recognized that single academic disciplines are ill equipped to address complex problems that modern societies and science face (Nature 2015). Accordingly, interdisciplinarity has become a hot topic and a buzzword in the policy discourse for science and higher education. Yet, translating policy discourse into policy design and governance arrangements is not straightforward. Regarding interdisciplinarity, scholars showed that so far the discourse on interdisciplinarity conflicts with the persistence or even reinforcement of modes of governance that almost exclusively rely on rigid discipline-based classification systems.

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