Task 1
1. Cross Disciplinary - linking two or more fields of study; interdisciplinary
2. Inter Disciplinary - the quality or state of involving more than one discipline
3. Trans Disciplinary - transcendent of the curriculum content and focuses on authentic learning,
new perspectives, current issues within the context of multiple
disciplines.
4. Qualitative - Qualitative research gathers information that is not in numerical form
5. Ethnographic - the branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of
individual human societies
Sources:
The following are the meanings of below terms:
Cross-disciplinary.
Cross-disciplinary Involving two or more academic disciplines
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cross-disciplinary#useinasentence) (31 October 2012)
Interdisciplinary
1. combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study
2. combining or involving two or more professions, technologies,departments, or the like, as in business or industry.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interdisciplinary) (31 October 2012)
Transdisciplinary
Transdisciplinary can be thought of as the union of all interdisciplinary efforts.
Collaboration in which exchanging information, altering discipline-specific approaches, sharing resources and integrating disciplines achieves a common scientific goal
Qualitative
Qualitative Associated with the subjective quality of a thing or phenomenon, such as feel, taste, expertise, image, leadership, reputation.
Qualitative aspects are abstract; they either do not require measurement or cannot be measured because the reality they represent can only be approximated. Knowledge of these aspects is gained through observation combined with interpretative understanding of the underlying thing or phenomenon.
(http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/qualitative.html) (31 October 2012)
Ethnographic
The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.
