Disciplinary is a term used to describe types of knowledge, skills, people, communities, problems, challenges, studies, inquiry, approaches, and research areas.
There are a few types of Disciplinary :
- Cross disciplinary
- Inter disciplinary
- Trans disciplinary
- Qualitative disciplinary
- Ethnographic disciplinary
CROSS DISCIPLINARY
- describe any activities or research outside the scope of its own discipline without cooperation from other relevant disciplines.
- studied using foreign methodologies of unrelated disciplines
- Disciplinary boundaries are crossed but no techniques or ideals are exchanged
INTER DISCIPLINARY
- Involved two or more academic field into one discipline
- applied within academic or education to describe studies
- People involved in this discipline : Researcher, Teachers and Students
- May be applied where the subject is felt to have been neglected or even misrepresented
TRANS DISCIPLINARY
- A research strategy to create a holistic approach
- Focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines
- Used to signify a unity of knowledge beyond disciplines
QUALITATIVE DISCIPLINARY
- Employed in many different academic disciplines
- Gather the understanding of human behavior and the reasons behind them
- Investigates the why and how of decision making
- Can be used to seek empirical support for such research hypotheses
ETHNOGRAPHY DISCIPLINARY
- Provide a detailed description of everyday life and practice
- Sometimes known as "Thick Description"
- Developed through close exploration of several sources of data
- Relies on a cultural frame of analysis