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Cultural and Communication Barriers to Interdisciplinary Research: Implication for Global Health Information Programs – Philosophical, Disciplinary Epistemological, and Methodological Discourses

Cultural and Communication Barriers to Interdisciplinary Research: Implication for Global Health Information Programs – Philosophical, Disciplinary Epistemological, and Methodological Discourses

Abdullahi I. Musa
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 33
ISBN13: 9781522538783|ISBN10: 152253878X|EISBN13: 9781522538790
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3878-3.ch011
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Musa, Abdullahi I. "Cultural and Communication Barriers to Interdisciplinary Research: Implication for Global Health Information Programs – Philosophical, Disciplinary Epistemological, and Methodological Discourses." Promoting Interdisciplinarity in Knowledge Generation and Problem Solving, edited by Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, et al., IGI Global, 2018, pp. 148-180. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3878-3.ch011

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Musa, A. I. (2018). Cultural and Communication Barriers to Interdisciplinary Research: Implication for Global Health Information Programs – Philosophical, Disciplinary Epistemological, and Methodological Discourses. In M. Al-Suqri, A. Al-Kindi, S. AlKindi, & N. Saleem (Eds.), Promoting Interdisciplinarity in Knowledge Generation and Problem Solving (pp. 148-180). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3878-3.ch011

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Musa, Abdullahi I. "Cultural and Communication Barriers to Interdisciplinary Research: Implication for Global Health Information Programs – Philosophical, Disciplinary Epistemological, and Methodological Discourses." In Promoting Interdisciplinarity in Knowledge Generation and Problem Solving, edited by Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, et al., 148-180. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3878-3.ch011

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Abstract

This chapter examines the cultural and communicative challenges of interdisciplinary research. The author argues that to understand the nature and scope of cultural and communicative barriers to interdisciplinary research, we must focus on the link between the philosophy of science and research philosophy which shape how scholars frame empirical inquiries, determine interesting research questions, and define the choice of research methodologies and methods. The chapter examined the cultural and communicative challenges of interdisciplinary research through the philosophical perspectives of philosophy of science and research philosophy. It distinguished between main research choices: deductive and inductive and their relevance to the cultural and communicative challenges of interdisciplinary research. It also explains the epistemological, ontological and axiological positions of research and its role in understanding the cultural and communicative challenges of interdisciplinary research. It discusses how scholars are socialized into a scholarly tradition, and how scholarly tradition is perpetuated. It outlined the assumptions of contending scientific methods and how they hinder interdisciplinary research with implications for global health information and communication programs. The chapter demonstrates why it is important for global health information and communication scholars to examine and contrast the opposing scientific research paradigms with associated competing knowledge claims since each offered a different way of understanding how research should be done.

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