Question: 1. How does Repko ultimately define the word discipline?
a. A discipline is a powerful lens through which practitioners interpret the world
b. A discipline is a body of knowledge, a specialized vocabulary, an accepted body of theory, a systematic research strategy, and techniques for replication and validation
c. A discipline is (1) an identifiable field of study, (2) the body of knowledge associated with that field of study, and (3) a community of scholars who engage in specific fields of knowledge
d. A discipline is an identifiable but evolving domain of knowledge that its members study using certain tools that serve as a way of knowing; that way of knowing is powerful, but constraining
e. A discipline is the tools, methods, procedures, [phenomenon], concepts, and theories, that account coherently for a set of objects of study
2. What does Repko say the purpose of a discipline is?
a. To put limits on the kind of questions people who practice each discipline ask
b. To interpret realty according to certain prescribed guidelines and provide its members with organizational support
c. To make sense of the world
d. To put limits on the types of methods researchers use to answer a question in a particular field
e. To act as organizational units within a university
3. Repko notes that one of the things disciplines do is transfer knowledge and understanding of the discipline from one generation to the next. Pick ALL of the ways he says that this is done.
a. By publishing articles that critique approaches to ideas that challenges those held by the majority within the discipline
b. By offering graduate degree programs for creating new faculty members for the discipline
c. By offering undergraduate degree programs and majors that equip students with a working knowledge of the discipline
d. By publishing research and texts that introduce people to the disciplines and generate their interest
e. By giving presentations on new topics in the field at conference and seminars
4. According to Repko, disciplinary perspective is a discipline's unique view of reality and the primary means of distinguishing one discipline from another.
True
False
5. Repko notes that a single disciplinary perspective of a complex problem is often incomplete. Why does he think this is the case?
a. Because disciplines are incredibly complicated to understand and as such complete understanding of any single complex problem can be hard to achieve
b. Because individual disciplines lack the tools, history, and methods for looking at large, complex problems like global warming, structural racism, and gender bias
c. Because people who practice disciplines tend to look at problems only through the lens of their own discipline's perspective; other disciplinary perspectives may be needed for a fuller understanding of a complex problem
d. The reading does not deal with the issue of disciplinary perspectives in relation to complex problems
6. Match the element of a discipline to its definition - a. b. c. d. Phenomena - a. b. c. d. Epistemology - a. b. c. d. Assumptions - a. b. c. d. Methods a.The disciplines view on what can be known and how knowledge can be reproducedb.The things that the discipline assumes to be truec.The particular procedures or process or techniques used by a discipline's practitioners to conduct researchd.All of the things (subjects, objects, behaviors, etc.) that a discipline can study