Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Emphasis of Academic Disciplines as Knowledge integration and
application
Further, a study by Smart and Ethington (1995) reports the opinions on the goals of
undergraduate education from over 4000 university faculty members who regularly taught
undergraduate students. The conclusions were that soft and applied disciplines place greater
emphasis on knowledge acquisition, and hard disciplines have more concern for knowledge
application. Knowledge integration and application were both perceived to be more
important in the applied disciplines than in the pure.