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ERIC Number: EJ633694
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0309-8265
What Price Interdisciplinarity?: Crossing the Curriculum in Environmental Higher Education.
Foster, John
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, v23 n3 p358-66 Nov 1999
States that the received understanding of interdisciplinarity in environmental higher education depends on the environmental agenda that privileges positivistic assumptions associated with the physical and biological sciences. Contends that paradisciplinarity should be the aim in environmental higher education. (CMK)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Environmental Education, Geography, Heuristics, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Persuasive Discourse, Physical Sciences, Social Studies, Universities
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Positivism
Note: Written for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education Symposium: The TALESSI Project.