transdisciplinarian
English edit
Etymology edit
trans- + discipline + -arian
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Noun edit
transdisciplinarian (plural transdisciplinarians)
- One whose area of work or study crosses and holistically incorporates multiple disciplines (e.g. both architecture and philosophy).
- 2008, Stichting Archis, Destination Library:
- The essential difference between the transdisciplinarian (the architect collaborating with a philosopher) and the multidisciplinary equivalent is that the transdisciplinarian assumes their own specialty (discipline) will be transformed ...
Adjective edit
transdisciplinarian (not comparable)
- Incorporating multiple disciplines; transdisciplinary.
- 2016, Paul Ernest, Bharath Sriraman, Nuala Ernest, Critical Mathematics Education, IAP, →ISBN, page 30:
- Research in ethnomathematics is, thus, necessarily transcultural and transdisciplinarian. The encounters are examined in its widest form, to permit exploration of more indirect interactions and influences, and to permit examination of subjects ...
- 2018, Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite, Promoting Language and STEAM as Human Rights in Education, Springer, →ISBN, page 172:
- The Program Ethnomathematics is a transdisciplinarian and transcultural research program on the evolution of behavior and knowledge in the human species.