Human Resource Development – the Intersection of Disciplines? by Kristinka Ovesni

“…This paper considers how, as a relatively young academic discipline, human resource development (HRD) has undergone significant changes in terms of research approaches that constitute a relevant sum of scientific knowledge, the influence of related scientific disciplines, and the main research topics since the second decade of the twenty-first century. …”
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Argument for a Pedagogical Hermeneutics by Diana Csorba

“…The history of pedagogy, as an academic discipline, provides the favorable context for the practice of reflexive hermeneutic skills. …”
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«No tenía pretensiones, solo quería trabajar» Españolas en Francia, servicio doméstico y empleo informal (1939-1975) by Rocío Negrete Peña

“…Due to triple discrimination and lack of recognition, any academic discipline (excepting sociology) doesn’t have studied enough this work done by migrant women. …”
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Methods of using interactive technologies in technical university by Morozova Yanina, Rozhnenko Oksana, Guledani Diana

“…The following pedagogical conditions are proposed for the implementation of interactive foreign language teaching: activation of the students’ educational and professional activity by increasing their motivation for professional foreign language activity, change of the teacher’s position from the leader to the dual position of the organiser-participant of the joint educational activity, use of interactive methods and forms of conducting training sessions, development of the content of the academic discipline in the direction of interactive learning.…”
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Catching fairies and the public representation of biogeography by Ladle, R

“…Biogeography is a vibrant academic discipline that plays an important role in framing and directing debates on some of the most important environmental issues of our time, such as the impacts of climate change on biodiversity, biotic homogenization and the effectiveness of global conservation policy. …”

Writing the Ghost Writer Back In: Alfred Sloan, Alfred Chandler, John McDonald and the Intellectual Origins of Corporate Strategy by McKenna, C

“…John McDonald, in contrast, was a business journalist whose early interest in game theory was an important catalyst in the development of corporate strategy as an academic discipline. Unfortunately, few scholars remember McDonald's influential role as the ghost-writer for Alfred Sloan's memoir, My Years with General Motors, or McDonald's prescient decision to hire the young business historian, Alfred Chandler, to serve as their research assistant. …”

Mary Augusta Ward's "perfect economist" and the logic of anti-suffragism by Coit, E

“…This article exposes the engagement of Mary Augusta Ward's Marcella (1894) with the emergent academic discipline of economics, drawing connections between Ward's influential novel and texts by the economic thinkers John Ruskin, Beatrice Webb, and Alfred Marshall. …”

From Genealogy To Inventory: The Situation Of Asian American Studies In The Age Of The Crisis Of Global Finance Capital by Jr, E. San Juan

“…The onset of global capitalism's crisis has exposed the fragile theoretical underpinnings of Asian American Studies as an academic discipline. Spellbound by deconstructive, rhetorical assumptions, all symptomatic of commodityfetishism and alienation, mainstream Asian American critics continue to validate neoliberal pluralism while claiming to value difference and singularity. …”
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FLEMING�S DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND PROCESS OF MATURITY IN STEPHEN CRANE�S THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE by , Adam Anshori, SS., , Prof. Dr. C. Sobakdi Soemanto, S.U.

“…This study used American Studies theory by Robert Meredith which agrees that the American Studies approach needs more than one academic discipline. The reconciliation of academic discipline enables the writer uses psychological approach. …”

Publishing studies: the search for an elusive academic object by Sophie Noël

“…This paper questions the validity of the so-called “publishing studies” as an academic discipline, while trying to situate them within the field of social sciences and to contextualize their success. …”
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Brazilian Studies Then and Now by Anthony Pereira

“…These are the need to establish an adequate comparative context for the study of Brazil; the difficulty of justifying an academic discipline that revolves around the study of a single country; and the challenge of uniting disparate and specialized disciplines in order to appreciate Brazil’s complexity and trajectory in the modern world. …”
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The Impact of Non-Cognitive Characteristics on the Higher Education Choice-Making: An Economist Perspective by Ksenia Rozhkova, Sergey Roshchin

“…The concept of higher education choice-making in this paper embraces the decision to embark on a college degree, the probability of successful degree completion, the choice of academic discipline, and other related aspects. A priority focus is given to publications in economics since the economic approach differs a lot from approaches in other social sciences. …”
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MANAGEMENTUL PROIECTULUI – O INOVAŢIE ÎN CURRICULUMUL PSIHOPEDAGOGIC UNIVERSITAR by USM ADMIN

“… This article responds to the challenge but also to the opportunity to teach the academic discipline for the second cycle of university studies, with theoretical-applicative character. …”
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Event review: Central Narmada Basin Paleoanthropology Fieldschool by Parth Chauhan, Prabhin Sukumaran

“…In comparison to other subjects in Indian archaeology and Quaternary studies, paleoanthropology has declined significantly in recent decades as a prominent academic discipline in the Indian Subcontinent. Most archaeological research and teaching in South Asia are largely focused on younger time periods, primarily the protohistoric or Chalcolithic and historical phases. …”
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The modal forms 'must' and 'should' in English academic discourse by Spanish postgraduates by Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil

“…The findings revealed that must and should are utilised with differing frequencies and in diverse ways, depending on the academic discipline and the rhetorical purpose of the discourse. …”
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Review of Theodore Gracyk and Andrew Kania, eds. 2011. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music. Abingdon, UK, and New York, NY: Routledge. by Scott Gleason

“…One of the strengths of the Companion is its ability to appeal to readers from seemingly every music–academic discipline. The Companion thus provides a new standard of philosophical conversation toward which musicians can aspire.…”
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Birth of a discipline? by Brian James Baer

“… This article proposes four characteristics that define a field of study as an academic discipline and then applies them to early Soviet efforts regarding the study of translation, referred to as perevodovedenie. …”
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Managing Student Self-Disclosure in Class Settings: Lessons from Feminist Pedagogy by Catherine Borshuk

“…Drawing on principles of feminist pedagogy and using examples from classes I teach about women and psychology, I detail the challenges related to students’ personal biographies and beliefs about their experiences, and outline some strategies that may usefully find balance between respecting their experiences and providing a learning environment while teaching about the values and ethics of an academic discipline.…”
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Philosophy as World Literature by Magda Wächter

“…The fluid lines between the two disciplines, viewed as such according to continental philosophical thinking from existentialism to poststructuralism, may lead to the concept of world philosophy as world literature, already explored from various particular perspectives in collective volumes and studied as an academic discipline. Such enterprises come to complete the picture of the multiperspectival connection between the two “sister arts”, surveyed in previous collective researches dealing with topics like: philosophy as literature, the philosophy of literature, philosophy in literature, literary genres and literary style in philosophical discourse, or the intermediary status of literary theory.…”
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Toward Islamic English by Ismā‘īl Rājī al Fārūqī by ZEESHAN AHMED SHEIKH

“…However, the paradigm in which the book’s theme is described is more academic and relates to the methodological dimensions of studying Islamic Studies as an academic discipline. …”
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