Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Check Your Progress – 1
Identify the correct answers using ‘“’ mark.
Classifications are important because they __________
1.
allow for the investigation of further knowledge.
2.
assist in grasping relationships and trends.
3.
allow to gather more details about specific aspect.
4.
lead to the detection of previously undiscovered patterns.
5.
allow for understanding of practical issues.
6.
make evaluation of content easy.
2.1.3.2. Different Classifications of Academic Disciplines:
The academic disciplines have been classified by different people at different times
with different criteria. Let us understand such three classifications and they are as follows:
a)
The Approximate Classification of Academic Disciplines
b)
Aristotle’s Classification
c)
Biglan’s (1970) Classification
d)
Biglan-Becher typology
a) The Approximate Classification of Academic Disciplines
 In approximate classification of academic disciplines, disciplines are arranged into
following subgroups:
1.
Fine Arts: This include such disciplines as Art, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts, and
Performing Arts. The task of Fine Arts is to evaluate the human activity from
the aesthetic point of view.
2.
Humanities which are History, Language, Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
etc. This subgroup also has its own task which is to comprehend a human creature
as a unique phenomenon.
3.
Social Sciences are Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Cultural and
Ethnic Studies, Economics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Geography, Political
Science, Psychology, Sociology. The aim of this group of academic disciplines
is to investigate social role of a human and the results of human activities.
Social Sciences are divided into General and Concrete Sciences. General
disciplines explore general human activity, and Concrete Sciences investigate
humanactivities in a concrete situation.
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4.
Sciences include Chemistry, Astronomy, Botany, Biology, and physics etc. The
task of this group is to explore the nature.
5.
Mathematics covers such disciplines as Computer Sciences, Logic, Mathematics,
and Statistics. The aim of this branch of knowledge is to explore and systemize
abstract notions and relations between them.