Kayla Reed
IDST 4114
7/9/08
Interdisciplinary Studies-Key Terms
Disciplinarity: All of the different tools used when forming a subject. In other words it’s the work that is created from everyone’s different opinions and ideas all put together.
Interdisciplinary: This is used when people are trying to solve problems that can not be solved or completed without many different approaches.
Multidisciplinary: Multidisciplinary work requires everyone to do their own thing together without relying on one another’s work or opinions.
Transdisciplinarity: Is the work that is created from many different disciplines all put together. The knowledge which is used in the work can never be singularly subject or belong to one discipline.
Cross-disciplinarity: This is used when a person wants to view someone else’s perspective of a discipline. It is when different disciplines cross one another to create a project.
1.) When terms are labeled as “essentially contested concepts,” it means that they “essentially involve endless disputes about their proper uses on the part of their users.”
2.) During the 1930’s the first American studies programs appeared which was at first only intended to involve literature and history but quickly expanded to include many different aspects of American culture and society. The American studies began as a way to provide students with “comprehensive, integrated knowledge about other geographical areas.”
3.) Some criticisms that interdisciplinarians have to face about different disciplines are that they are very broad and that when taking interdisciplinary classes a person can not excel in one thing, they learn about many different things.
4.) The framework of interdisciplinary studies helps to overcome limitations of disciplinary practice because it involves some many different ideas, theories, concepts all put together by different people to form project. The subject is very open to everyone’s thoughts and opinions.
5.) One example of an interdisciplinary metaphor is a quilt or a blanket. For Christmas last year I made a Virginia Tech fleece blanket that had a lot of different parts and sections to it, but when put together it all formed a blanket, with a huge VT on both sides!
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be really careful with these definitions - see the text -- there is a thorough discussion of the terms and the differences between them...
Disc -- this is different than opinions -- it is a specific way of seeing the world (questions, methods, tools,...)
IDST -- key words "integrate" and "synthesis"
Multidiscip - it isn't about people working together -- it is about different disciplinary perspectives (again, not just opinions and having different people)
What is the difference between trans and multi and idst?
a very key point - that I must hit home -- is that these definitions are not about opinions and different people -- much more academically rigorous...
** as this is senior seminar, you should be doing much more with your discussions
1. the point is that through ongoing debate and discussion the meaning of the field is further understood
3. see gray box on page 25
4. address the points in 3
5. this isn't original -- it is listed in the text
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