Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory

by Allen F. Repko, Rick Szostak

Interdisciplinary Process and Theory offers a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the interdisciplinary research process and the theory that informs it. The authors illustrate each step of the decision-making process by drawing on student and professional work from the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and applied fields. Designed for active learning and problem-based approaches as well as for more traditional approaches, the Third Edition now includes more examples from real student research projects and adds more tables and figures to enliven the discussion.



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Genres: Nonfiction, Education, Textbooks, Research

464 pages, Paperback

First published May 27, 2008

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am using this text in a course I am developing and it is, hands-down, THE definitive text (well, also the ONLY text) on Interdisciplinary Studies. It is a wonderful resource for any and all interested in bridging traditional, siloed educational categories, learning from each, while coming to a greater understanding of both.

[Donna Dancer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is being used in a doctoral course for an overview of ILT research and I find it very useful. It is organized, objectives are explicit, outcomes are explicit and real-world explanations or scenarios are given for various approaches, terms, reasonings, which is a compliment to other readings in the class, which are academic in that research is approached from a static, procedural, unanticipated view rather than the fluidity it is.

[Mindy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a review for the Hardcopy. I found this book helpful for learning the interdisciplinary research process. Unfortunately, I found the examples to be too specific to be helpful for the larger audience. The irony is that the 9th step of the 10-step process is to make the research approachable for your audience. Anyway, I got an A on my paper with a comment that I had followed the 10 steps well, so I guess they made their text approachable for me.

[Izabella Britten · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very hard to understand at times. Very technical but also some of it was just like common knowledge said in very fancy terms. Learned a little bit more about interdisciplinary research but also not a ton.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can be daunting but worth the work.

[Elliot · Rating 2 out of 5]

It contains a lot of information and explanations, charts and diagrams, unfortunately, I could never find what I was really looking for in terms of descriptions and elaboration.

At the end I was doing independent research on topics that should have been covered better in the text.

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[Derek Pyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful, lots of charts and things. Some repeating information-- don't read this book just for kicks, that would be weird.