Jada Hollingsworth

March 17, 2014

Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies

Glossary List
Dr. Khadijah O. Miller

Interdisciplinary Studies: a degree program that allows the student to

build their own concentration based upon three concentration areas.
Discipline: a field of study.
Disciplinarity: relation to a specific field of study.
Interdisciplinary Research: taking different fields of study and finding
a relation between them.
Interdisciplinary Learning: a process where multiple fields of study are
brought together with the goal of adopting a better learning in each
area.
Multidisciplinary: combining multiple fields of study in an approach to a
problem.
Cross disciplinary: relating to two or more fields of study.
Intradisciplinary: being or occurring within the scope of a scholarly or
academic discipline or between the people active in such a
discipline.
Metaphor: relating two unrelated things.
Blooms taxonomy: a psychological classification of learning levels.
Integration: combining different things as one.
Epistemology: the study of knowledge.
Concept: an abstract idea.
Method: a way of doing something.
Methodology: the study of organizing principles.
Theory: a general or abstract idea formed by speculation.

Curriculum: subjects taught at an educational institution.

Perspective: a mental stance.
Insight: the ability to perceive clearly
Ideas: an opinion, suggestion, or impression
Philosophy: a set of basic principles or concepts underlying a particular
sphere of knowledge.
Association for Integrative Studies (AIS): ) is an interdisciplinary
professional organization founded in 1979 to promote the
interchange of ideas among scholars and administrators in all of the
arts and sciences on intellectual and organizational issues related to
furthering integrative studies. Incorporated as a non-profit
educational association in the State of Ohio, it has an international
membership.
Knowledge: all that can be learned.
Knowledge formation, construction: the extent to which one
understands information.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC): leads innovation, builds
interdisciplinary and international networks, and focuses research
on important public issues.
Heuristic: the discovery of solutions.
Ethnocentrism: conviction of own cultural superiority.
Boundary crossing: A disruption of the barrier between two things.
Domains: a sphere of influence.
Knowledge domains: content of a particular field.
Mode(s) of thinking:
Critical thinking:
Hegemony:
Dogmatic:
Holistic:
Dichotomy:
Dialectic:

Iterative:
Heuristic:
Recursive:
Communication:
Polemical:
Idea dominance:
Scope:
Discourse:
Disciplinary assumptions: