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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