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From the perspective of systemics, Minati and Collen (1997) have described disciplinarity in terms of phases or forms of human activity to seek, develop, and produce knowledge. Disciplinarity manifests in four forms: singular, multiple, inter-relational, and boundary-breaking pursuits. Although there is the notion that knowledge resultant of each form is reflective of and delimited by its characteristic form, the presentation falls short in its depiction of the scheme as a whole to be a higher order conceptual system.
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Collen, A. (2002). Disciplinarity in the Pursuit of Knowledge. In: Minati, G., Pessa, E. (eds) Emergence in Complex, Cognitive, Social, and Biological Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0753-6_23
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