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The term interdisciplinary is applied within education and training pedagogies to describe studies that use methods and insights of several established disciplines or traditional fields of study. Interdisciplinarity involves researchers, students, and teachers in the goals of connecting and integrating several academic schools of thought ...
Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that crosses disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research (see bioinformatics), and can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one ...
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 ...
These methods structure how philosophers conduct their research, acquire knowledge, and select between competing theories. [ 88 ] [ 54 ] [ 89 ] It concerns both descriptive issues of what methods have been used by philosophers in the past and normative issues of which methods should be used.
Science studies is an interdisciplinary research area that seeks to situate scientific expertise in broad social, historical, and philosophical contexts. It uses various methods to analyze the production, representation and reception of scientific knowledge and its epistemic and semiotic role.
Faculty are drawn from different academic disciplines and also work at the IFF in contexts such as palliative care, organisational ethics, social ecology, environmental history, organisation development, science and technology studies, group dynamics, school development, higher education research, agricultural and regional development, continuing education, and intervention research.
Interdisciplinary teaching is a method, or set of methods, used to teach across curricular disciplines or "the bringing together of separate disciplines around common themes, issues, or problems.” [1] Often interdisciplinary instruction is associated with or a component of several other instructional approaches.
Multimethodology or multimethod research includes the use of more than one method of data collection or research in a research study or set of related studies.Mixed methods research is more specific in that it includes the mixing of qualitative and quantitative data, methods, methodologies, and/or paradigms in a research study or set of related studies.