Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

The Evolution of Interdisciplinary Education and Research: Past Need, Present Approach, Future Infrastructure

Author

Keyvan Zahedi

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.7508/isih.2009.04.001
Abstract
The present paper follows two aims: first it will look into the process, and not the history of the evolution of interdisciplinary approaches, and second it will present exaptational evolution as the complementary phase based on foresight management. Hence it will be demonstrated that the interdisciplinary process has already surpassed the mode 1 methodology and is currently completing and the mode 2 methodology. It will also be suggested that the evolution so far has been an adaptational one, will become exaptational within a framework that the author terms engaging engineering. Thus the paper will review the distinctions made within the broader interdisciplinary field, investigate its motivation and explain Raison d’étre of the approach, discuss the challenges in its way, offer the required features and last but not least explore the author’s proposal to enhance efficiency in its consolidation and expansion.

Keywords

Engaging Engineering
Exaptation
Interdisciplinary
Mode 2
Post-Normal Science
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  • Receive Date 30 June 2010
  • Revise Date 23 September 2009

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