Kakuta Haruo---Decoding Japan---

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Interdisciplinary

It seems that I have always been pursuing "interdisciplinary projects” which “are almost always the most difficult to finance” or to win approval, “because it is difficult to identify ... agencies who will also be interested in breaking down barriers." (Marco Iacooni, "Mirroring People", 2008, Picador, New York, p.248) To carry on such projects I have to meet people in other discipline "several times over the course of a year to figure out how to set up a series of experiments that would address the various issues” all the participants are “interested in.” We are “venturing into the unknown.” It will take “us a while to shape our interests and ideas into viable experimental designs. When we finally do, we have “to face the standing problem in” education. “How could we fund the project?"(ibid., p.247)