Thursday, 1 November 2012

Week 1 : Definitions

Cross-disciplinary adjective

Merriam Webster
of, relating to, or involving two or more disciplines. 
Giarts:
considering multiple disciplines when planning for and delivering instruction so that the learner understands concepts from multiple perspectives and makes natural connections between disciplines.
Wikipedia:
knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. Common examples of cross-disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or the politics of literature. 


Inter-disciplinary adjective

 1. Combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study: The economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.
2. Combining or involving two or more professions, technologies, departments, or the like, as in business or industry.
Wikipedia
new knowledge extensions that exist between or beyond existing academic disciplines or professions. The new knowledge may be claimed by members of none, one, both, or an emerging new academic discipline or profession. 


Trans-disciplinary adjective

Dictionary.com :
pertaining to or involving more than one discipline
answer : 
Describing a study which runs across traditional subject boundaries such as arts and science. Geography is often portrayed as a transdisciplinary subject since it has been concerned with the interplay between environment and humans, but many geographers argue that, with increasing specialization, the gulf between physical and human geographers has become very wide.
Wikipedia
connotes a research strategy that crosses many 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 discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography, a field research method originally developed in anthropology but now widely used by other disciplines.


Qualitative Research

Wikipedia
a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. 
Okstate 
a generic term for investigative methodologies described as ethnographic, naturalistic, anthropological, field, or participant observer research. It emphasizes the importance of looking at variables in the natural setting in which they are found.


Enthnographic Studies/ Research 

The free dictionary
Methods of qualitative research developed by anthropologists, in which the researcher attends to and inter-prets communication while participating in the research context.
Slides share
A qualitative approach that studies the cultural patterns and perspectives of participants in their natural settings.
eHow
Ethnography means "portrait of a people." This social science research method, closely associated with the fields of anthropology and sociology, though not exclusive to them, provides a detailed description of a culture from the viewpoint of a researcher who brings both inside and outside perspectives.



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