Metadisciplinary Perspective
A Metadisciplinary Perspective is a perspectives or paradigm that breaks through disciplinary silos and colonial ontological and epistemological reductions to provide a unifying, multidisciplinary [1][2] and multi-ontological understanding of reality.[3].
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For Werth, metadisciplinary means a "larger curricular focus that transcends or supersedes traditional disciplinary boundaries to create a truly holistic, systemic, integrative worldview uncluttered by familiar limits and barriers. Instead of merely linking two or more customary fields together at their margins, a metadisciplinary focus reveals that all such fields are fundamentally related in numerous significant ways, both theoretically and practically. Such a focus demonstrates that no one can legitimately study political science with- out due consideration of history or philosophy....One could study only elephant ears or tusks, but one must see these as components of a coherent, unified whole." [4]
Footnotes
- ↑ Werth, Alexander. “Unity in Diversity: The Virtues of a Metadisciplinary Perspective in Liberal Arts Education.” Journal of the National Collegiate Honor Council 4 (2003). https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/118/.
- ↑ Kalantzis, Mary, and Bill Cope. “‘Education Is the New Philosophy’, to Make a Metadisciplinary Claim for the Learning Sciences.” In A Companion to Research in Education, edited by Alan D. Reid, E. Paul Hart, and Michael A. Peters, 101–15. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6809-3_13.
- ↑ Email conversation with Dan Longboat
- ↑ Werth, Alexander. “Unity in Diversity: The Virtues of a Metadisciplinary Perspective in Liberal Arts Education.” Journal of the National Collegiate Honor Council 4 (2003). p. 36-7.https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/118/.
