Stein, Zachary (2007)
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Abstract
I suggest there are two key factors that bear on the quality of interdisciplinary endeavors: the complexity of cognition and collaboration and the epistemological structure of interdisciplinary validity claims. The former suggests a hierarchical taxonomy of forms of inquiry involving more than one discipline. Inspired by Jantsh (1972) and looking to Fischer's (1980) levels of cognitive development, I outline the following forms: disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, cross-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and trans-disciplinary. This hierarchical taxonomy based on complexity is then supplemented by an epistemological discussion concerned with validity. I look to a handful of philosophers to distill the general epistemological structure of knowledge claims implicating more than one discipline. This involves differentiating between levels of-analysis issues and perspectival issues. When all is said and done, we end up with a “language of evaluation” applicable to interdisciplinarity endeavors. Ultimately, this suggests an ideal mode of interdisciplinary endeavoring roughly coterminous with Wilber's (2006) Integral Methodological Pluralism.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Education > Educational Methods and Practices Education > Educational Theory |
| Depositing User: | Zak Stein |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2016 19:04 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2016 19:04 |
| URI: | http://scholarship.meridianuniversity.edu/id/eprint/52 |
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