Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Production of Knowledge and Creativity



From my experiences I have found the importance of incorporating knowledge from several disciplines; whether it’s working with individuals in another field or learning a variety of subjects.  I did not realize that my views on how multiple disciplines interact were so narrow minded.  My grasp of this subject was limited to collecting knowledge though multidisciplinarity where I had a goal sought knowledge solely with the purpose of advancing a topic in my fiel
After this lecture I will trying to approach working with a variety of fields with a pluridisciplinarity.  When studying a topic, if I was to consider multidisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity, and interdisciplinarity interactions I may be able to generate a better rational.

Using Dr. Vanegas’ definitions of the topics:

Pluridisciplinarity - the study of a topic, not in only one discipline, but in several at the same time.
Multidisciplinarity - the study of a topic within one discipline, with support from other disciplines, bringing together multiple dimensions, but always in the service of the driving discipline.
Transdisciplinarity - is concerned, at once, with what is within, between, across, and beyond the different disciplines
Crossdisciplinarity - the study of a topic at the intersection of multiple disciplines, and with the commonalities among the disciplines involved.
Interdisciplinarity - the study of a topic within multiple disciplines, and with the transfer of methods from one discipline to another.

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