Interdiscipline
An interdiscipline or inter-discipline is an field that involves two or more academic disciplines but which also meets the formal criteria (such as dedicated research journals, conferences and university departments) to be considered a discipline in its own right. A field may be both a discipline and an interdiscipline at the same time, such as demography as explained below. A field may also be regarded as a discipline in some countries but an interdiscipline in other countries, such as information science.
Conceptions
[edit | edit source]Giesecke (1981)[1] says about educational research ("pedagogy") that is an "aporetic science", i.e. an interdiscipline.
Tengström (1993)[2] emphases that cross-disciplinary research is a process, not a state or structure. He differentiates three levels of ambition regarding cross-disciplinary research:
- The pluridisciplinary or multidisciplinarity level
- The genuine cross-disciplinary level: interdisciplinarity
- The discipline-forming level transdisciplinarity
What is described here is a view of social fields as dynamic and changing. Library and information science is viewed as a field that started as a multidisciplinary approach based on literature, psychology, sociology, management, computer science etc., which is developing towards an academic discipline in its own right.
Examples
[edit | edit source]- Biosemiotics[3]
- Cryptography
- Demography
- "As a field with its own body of interrelated concepts, techniques, journals, and professional associations, demography is clearly a discipline. But by the nature of its subject matter and methods demography is just as clearly an 'interdiscipline', drawing heavily on biology and sociology for the study of fertility; on economics and geography for studies of migration; and on the health sciences for the study of mortality." (Stycos, 1989, vii).[4]
- Forensic Kinesiology[5]
- Genetic toxicology[6]
- Humor and translation[7]
- Information science
- In America information science and communication studies are considered two academic disciplines. In France, however, they are considered one interdiscipline. (See also[8]).
- Planetary science
- Public health[9]
- Social science in agriculture[10]
- Sociolinguistics[11]
See also
[edit | edit source]Literature
[edit | edit source]- ^ Giesecke, Hermann (1981). Indføring i pædagogik. København: Nyt Nordisk Forlag. German original: Einführung in die Pädagogik. München: Juventa 1970 (2. Auflage)
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- ^ Singh, Yogendra Pal; Pareek, Udai Narain; Arora, D. R. (1974). "Diffusion of an interdiscipline: social sciences in agriculture education". Delhi: New Heights for Indian Society of Extension Education.
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