Realizing a Disciplinarian State of Being from an Interdisciplinary Approach or an Interdisciplinarian State of Being from Disciplines
Matthew E. Edwards
An interdisciplinarian is a focusedly learned
individual who has had both additional expert
tutelage and “synergetic knowledge connections,”
resulting from convolvement learning of comparative
and contrasting information and methods. Secondly,
to be a multidisciplinarian is to be knowledgeable in
two or more disciplines without having had the
benefits of expert tutelage or “synergetic knowledge
connections.” Thirdly, a disciplinarian is a focusedly
learned individual possessing vast amounts of related
information and understanding in a single field of
study, resulting from additional expert tutelage, thus
allowing the individual to be able to investigate new
concepts, serve an organization, solve existing
problems, or make new products. This same ability to
investigate new concepts, serve an organization,
solve existing problems, and make new products
exists for the interdisciplinarian as well, but far less
so if not at all for the multidisciplinarian individual.
These vastly different states of being are what we call
in this research Career-path Alliances. Each Careerpath
alliance can manifest through opportunities
where an individual can persist by doing scholarly
activities on one hand, or serving organizations,
practicing professional activities, or entering early
career choice positioning on the other. How to
achieve a Career-path alliance and sustain the same is
an interesting contemplation. To that extent, we have
reviewed the Career-path alliances and illustrated
here selected structures that illumine timelines to
achieve such states of being. Also, along with
providing critical information on issues pertaining to
achieving each Career-path alliance, particularly
regarding socio-economics of different groups of
individuals, we denote how to maintain or persist in
each alliance once achieved, and how to transition
from one alliance to another, while still maintaining a
scholarly demeanor, a servicing posture, a
professional practicing behavior, or an early career
choice participation stance after either the
interdisciplinarian or disciplinarian alliance has been
achieved. Full Text
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