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Inter-disciplinary teaching need of the hour
Prof K Nageshwar, Editor, The Hans India, exhorted university and college teachers to explore new frontiers of knowledge and new schools of thought by crisscrossing disciplines. Delivering the inaugural lecture at 85th Orientation Course at UGC-HRDC, Osmania University on Thursday, Prof K Nageshwar emphasised the need for promoting inter-disciplinary teaching, particularly in higher education in
Prof K Nageshwar emphasises the need for exploring new frontiers of thought
Hyderabad: Prof K Nageshwar, Editor, The Hans India, exhorted university and college teachers to explore new frontiers of knowledge and new schools of thought by crisscrossing disciplines. Delivering the inaugural lecture at 85th Orientation Course at UGC-HRDC, Osmania University on Thursday, Prof K Nageshwar emphasised the need for promoting inter-disciplinary teaching, particularly in higher education in India. It is the responsibility of teachers to react, reflect, and communicate to the society, he said.
Stating that it is always amusing to crisscross between various subjects, he said that when different branches of knowledge interact and interface, exciting insights would emerge.Prof Nageshwar explained that William Shakespeare’s plays had a formative influence on the development of Marxism and psycho-analysis.
Marx used lines from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and ‘Timon of Athens’ to develop his economic theory and his theory of consciousness. Sigmund Freud used his reading of ‘Hamlet’ to develop the acclaimed theory of Oedipus Complex. In the ‘Republic’, Plato argued that the study of arithmetic has a positive effect on individuals, compelling them to reason about abstract numbers.
Numbers has an application in everyone’s life and profession, he further elaborated. John Forbes Nash Jr., an American mathematician, developed fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial
differential equations.
These concepts have provided an insight into the factors that govern chance and decision making inside complex systems found in daily life. His theories are used in economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, Computer Science, games of skill, politics and military theory.
