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Real, Leslie A. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
In the past, humanists and scientists have held very different views about the role of collaboration in scholarly research. From the point of view of a Principal Investigator in a scientific laboratory, this article examines the increasingly dominant role of collaboration in scientific research. In contrast to the "consensus research" model of the…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Cooperation, Cultural Differences, Sciences
Karakas, Scott L. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
In his landmark 1959 Rede lecture and subsequent publication, physicist Charles Percy Snow expressed concerns over what he saw as a growing rift between scientific and literary scholarly communities (Snow 1959). In the 50 years since that time, scholars and other commentators have expended a great deal of intellectual capital in the analysis of…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Sciences
England, Richard – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
Since before the time of writers such as Plato in his "Republic" and "Timaeus"; Martianus Capella in "The Marriage of Mercury and Philology"; Boethius in "De institutione musica"; Kepler in "The Harmony of the Universe"; and many others, there have been attempts to reconcile the various disciplines in the sciences, arts, humanities, and religion…
Descriptors: Ideology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Synthesis, Intellectual Disciplines
Cohen, Robby, Ed.; Robin, Ron, Ed. – 1985
A handbook for foreign teaching assistants (TAs) is presented by foreign graduate students with teaching experience and other educators who have worked closely with them. Language skills, teaching strategies, cultural issues, resources, and the environment at the University of California, Berkeley, are addressed in 16 articles. Article titles and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Grading
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Leutner, Detlev; Weinsier, Philip D. – Computers in Human Behavior, 1994
This article's goals are to validate the Computer and Information Technology Attitude Inventory (Weinsier and Leutner, 1988), a nontraditional approach to attitude measurement; and to report on a study designed to search for intercultural differences or cross-cultural consistency of attitudes toward computers and information technology. (46…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Anxiety
Golebiowski, Zofia, Ed.; Borland, Helen, Ed. – 1997
These selected papers from the First Conference on Tertiary Literacy focus on communication across differences of culture and discipline in Australian universities. Many of the papers have resulted from cooperation between applied linguists and specialist lecturers and describe cooperative models of literacy education based on interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Discourse, Allied Health Occupations Education, Communication Skills