Interdiscipline


An interdiscipline or inter-discipline is an field that involves two or more academic disciplines but which also meets the formal criteria to be considered a discipline in its own right. A field may be both a discipline and an interdiscipline at the same time, such as demography as explained below. A field may also be regarded as a discipline in some countries but an interdiscipline in other countries, such as information science.

Conceptions

Giesecke says about educational research that is an "aporetic science", i.e. an interdiscipline.
Tengström emphases that cross-disciplinary research is a process, not a state or structure. He differentiates three levels of ambition regarding cross-disciplinary research:
What is described here is a view of social fields as dynamic and changing. Library and information science is viewed as a field that started as a multidisciplinary approach based on literature, psychology, sociology, management, computer science etc., which is developing towards an academic discipline in its own right.

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