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French
Discipline (scolaire, universitaire, de référence): “Discipline” in French refers to at least three domains:
- the scholarly discipline is the one in which disciplinary knowledge is produced, the domain in which experts work (biologists, mathematicians, engineers, psychologists, historians, anthropologists…).
- the university discipline, close to the first, which includes the work of students and teacher-mentors.
- the school discipline which is, on the contrary, the results (according to some researchers) of “didactic transposition” or the transformation of scholarly and university knowledge into school subjects (with all this includes in terms of triage, rendering knowledge in lay terms, and sequencing knowledge into smaller units for acquisition by students in learning situations).
The relationship between high school and college disciplines is less clearly articulated.
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English
Discipline, school subject, field:
- the school subject is the discipline in its pre-higher education form.
- the discipline is the scholarly/university discipline of reference. There are frequently debates between practitioners and professors in higher education about the “Ivory Tower” nature of university knowledge or disciplines.
Composition theorists have expressed little interest in the relationship between scholarly knowledge and school subjects. On the other hand, they have pursued vigorously the links between writing in first-year courses, writing in the disciplines, the role of writing in the construction and appropriation of expert knowledge, the possibility or not of “transferring” writing knowledge from general learning to writing knowledge in a disciplinary context, and the status of the student with respect to the “community” of experts in a discipline (see discourse community.”)
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