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Glossary List
Interdisciplinary Studies: the term used for interdisciplinary studies to identify the
intellectual essence of the field that refers both to its defining elements and to the
process it uses to engage in the scholarly enterprise.
Discipline: a branch of learning or body of knowledge such as physics, psychology, or
history.
Disciplinarily: the system of knowledge specialties called discipline.
Interdisciplinary Researcher: To study a topic or question that is inherently complex and
whose parts are the focus of two or more disciplines, to integrate their insights, and to
construct a more comprehensive understanding of the topic or question.
Interdisciplinary Learning : emphasizes connections between traditionally discrete
disciplines such as math, science, and history.
Multidisciplinary : The placing side by side of insights from two or more disciplines
without attempting to integrate them.
Cross Disciplinary : knowledge is that which explains aspects of one discipline in terms
of another.
Interdisciplinary: The term used for interdisciplinary studies to identify the intellectual
essence of the field that refers both to its defining elements and to the process it uses
to engage in the scholarly enterprise.
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase, a story, or a picture is likened to
the idea that you are trying to communicate.
Blooms taxonomy
Integration: The cognitive process of critically evaluating disciplinary insights and
creating common ground among them to construct a more comprehensive understanding.
The new understanding is the product or result of the integrative process.
Epistemology: The study of nature and basis of knowledge.
Concept : abstract ideas generalized from particular instances or symbols expressed in
language that represent phenomena.
Method: Particular procedures or processes or techniques used by a disciplines
practitioners to conduct, organize, and present research.
Methodology: a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.
Theory : A generalized scholarly explanation about some aspect of the natural or human
world, how it works, and how specific facts are related, that is supported by data and
research.
Curriculum: provides an overview of a person's experience and other qualifications.
Perspective: Refers to a disciplines unique view of that part of reality that it is typically
most interested.
Insight : Scholarly contributions to the clear understanding of a complex problem, object,
or text. Insights may be found in published books or articles, or in papers delivered at
scholarly conferences.
Ideas: are often construed as mental representational images.
Philosophy: is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected
with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

Association for Integrative Studies : is an interdisciplinary professional organization

founded in 1979 to promote the interchange of ideas
Knowledge : One in which the development and creative application of knowledge is
the primary engine of economic growth, prosperity, and empowerment of all developing
sectors of society.
Knowledge formation, construction
Social Science Research Council: An independent, not-for-profit international
organization that seeks to advance social science throughout the world.
Heuristic: refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and
discovery that gives a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal.
Ethnocentrism: is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own
culture.
Boundary crossing : The exchange of data between two or more separate software
applications, to accomplish a single business task.
Domains: name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative
autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet.
Knowledge domains : the content of a particular field of knowledge.
Mode(s) of thinking: in mode of representation and complexity of inference and
understanding.
Critical thinking: The capacity to analyze, critique, and asses.
Hegemony: The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or
others.
Dogmatic: inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.
Holistic Dichotomy: relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems
rather than with the analysis of, treatment.
Dialectic : discussion and reasoning by dialogue as a method of intellectual investigation
specifically
Iterative: relating to or involving iteration, of a mathematical or computational process.
Recursive: characterized by recurrence or repetition, in particular
Communication: means of connection between people or places, in particular
Polemical: relating to, or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing
or speech.
Idea dominance: An opinion, conviction, or principle
Scope: Refers to the parameters of what is included or excluded for the study.
Discourse: is sometimes defined as the study of language 'beyond the sentence'.
Disciplinary assumptions : has certain key ideas that are difficult to master.