Pluri-Disciplinary; Against the Common Perception of Collaboration Among Disciplines
Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (Vol.7, No. 1)Publication Date: 2015-01-30
Authors : B. Shabani Varaki; A. Babadi;
Page : 1-25
Keywords : Discipline; collaboration among disciplines; pluri-disciplinary; transdisciplinary;
Abstract
There are numerous kinds of definitions and discourses of conceptualization for the collaboration among disciplines. Examining a wide range of the related texts represents various, divergent and also contradictory discourses back to this up. Carefully and critically examining the common perception of collaboration among disciplines, in this paper, authors introduce an alternative so-called pluridisciplinary.rn rnAnd, it is argued that pluri-disciplinary could be considered as an umbrella term for all other modes of collaboration among disciplines including multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdiciplinary. It is also contended that unlike the conventional perception of collaborations between disciplines, epistemological and instrument rationales need to be seen as a continuous integration, so such a holistic approach will lead to a new so-called discipline; transdiciplinary. It is also articulated that there is a hierarchical relationship between disciplines in the alternative. In this paper, simple knowledge in pluridisciplinary studies will be replaced by super-complex knowledge, so called; trans-disciplinary, as a new-fashioned discipline, emerges.
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