高质量跨学科研究:应然表现、现实困境与优化进路

High-Quality Interdisciplinary Research : Desirable Performance,Realistic Dilemma and Optimization Approach

开展跨学科研究是应对复杂性问题和知识生产方式转变的现实呼唤。近年来,跨学科研究得到广泛关注,但当前跨学科研究存在简单化、片面化倾向,研究成果质量并未与社会期待一致,表现为将跨学科研究等同于不同学科研究人员的简单聚集或单纯的学科知识移植,未能实现跨学科知识的流动与创新;与现实问题需求脱节,未能体现与系统环境的有效互动。理想的跨学科研究具有整体性、非线性、动态性、开放性的特征,而跨学科研究实践往往受参与主体学科规训的影响,受高校组织结构科层化与学术共同体规范的制约,并面临系统环境的多重挑战。走出现实困境,推进高质量跨学科研究需要:加强整合,提高跨学科研究深度;打破规训,营造开放的合作场域;淡化边界,完善相关支持系统。

Conducting interdisciplinary research is to respond to the realistic call of addressing issues of complexity and transformation of knowledge production mode.In recent years,interdisciplinary research has received widespread attention,but there is a tendency of simplification and one-sidedness in current interdisciplinary research,and the quality of research results fails to meet social expectations:equating interdisciplinary research with simple gathering of researchers from various disciplines or mere transplantation of disciplinary knowledge,which fails to achieve the flow and innovation of interdisciplinary knowledge;staying detached from the needs of real problems,which fails to reflect the effective interaction with the institutional,social and academic environments.The ideal interdisciplinary research has features of integrity,nonlinearity,dynamicity and openness,while the practice of interdisciplinary research is often influenced by rules and regulations of the major participating disciplines,constraints of the structured hierarchy at higher education institutions and norms at academic communities,and multiple challenges of the institutional,social and academic environments.In order to get out of the current predicament and promote high-quality interdisciplinary research,it is recommended to strengthen integration and improve the depth of interdisciplinary research,to break the disciplinary rules and regulations and develop an open and collaborative culture,to dissolve the disciplinary boundaries and enhance relevant supports.