User:Evarenon/sandbox/Approaches to Knowledge/Seminar Group 3/Disciplinary Categories

Discussion
From today’s lecture and my own research into disciplinary categories I have concluded that disciplinary categories are a human construct which uses the perceived similarities and differences of the cataloguer to assign an area of academia to a category depending on the features of this discipline and how it relates to the rest of knowledge and learning. A disciplinary category is made up of several disciplines which share particular features: ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ disciplines, ’life’ or ‘non-life’ and so on. The purpose of this indexing and categorisation is to make sense of the world of knowledge and how we learn and to establish control by satisfying the innate human desire to sort and order things into smaller groupings. This classification can have surprisingly large consequences on how we learn and perceive knowledge, it can also have negative consequences by creating tangible boundaries between disciplines which could benefit from a more fluid approach to knowledge in order to keep pace with the rapidly changing digital world. Lsythes (discuss • contribs) 14:35, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Suggested readings
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11162-011-9227-2== Evarenon (discuss • contribs) 13:25, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Peltonen, Chapter 2 "Bacon's classification of knowledge", 1996, in The Cambridge Companion to Bacon Evarenon (discuss • contribs) 13:30, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Leigh Van Valen, Laws in Biology and History: Structural Similarities of Academic Disciplines Guanc (discuss • contribs) 20:04, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Susan E. Searing, How Libraries Cope with Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Women’s Studies Guanc (discuss • contribs) 20:04, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Marlene Schommer-Aikins, Orpha K. Duell and Sue Barker, Epistemological Beliefs Across Domains Using Biglan's Classification of Academic Disciplines Guanc (discuss • contribs) 20:04, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Sharachchandra Lélé, Richard B. Norgaard, Practicing Interdisciplinarity Eeshagrover (discuss • contribs) 21:57, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.2.149.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A8a99c8083875d8b3e33b73a02cdbd922 Harris, Dianne, That's Not Architectural History! Or what's a discipline for?] Eeshagrover (discuss • contribs) 21:57, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Henri Bergson, Speech against specialities, 1882 Hadrienstrichard (discuss • contribs) 1:58, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Bible, Genesis 1 Hadrienstrichard(discuss • contribs) 1:58, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison, 1975 Hadrienstrichard(discuss • contribs) 1:58, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Hugh G. Petrie, [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/0013189X005002009 Do You See What I see? The Epistemology of Interdisciplinary Inquiry,] University of Illinois Clozinskabrown(discuss • contribs) 8:00, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Julie Thompson Klein, Integrative Learning and Interdisciplinary Studies, Wayne State University Clozinskabrown(discuss • contribs) 8:00, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Steven Brint, M.Cantwell, Preeta Saxena, Disciplinary Categories, Majors, and Undergraduate Academic Experiences: Rethinking Bok's "Underachieving College" Thesis, 2012 Clozinskabrown(discuss • contribs) 8:00, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Disciplinary Categories, Majors, and Undergraduate Academic Experiences: Rethinking Bok’s “Underachieving Colleges” Thesis Uclqffb (discuss • contribs) 09:01, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

The Evolution of American Scientific Fields: Disciplinary Differences Versus Institutional Isomorphism

How approaches to teaching are affected by discipline and teaching context

Hviding, Edvard. “Between Knowledges: Pacific Studies and Academic Disciplines.” The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 15, no. 1, 2003, pp. 43–73. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23722024.