What's the difference?

From Ann Prizzi

• Interdisciplinary: The process of combining two or more disciplines, fields of study or professions., but is also attempting to synthesis them into something new.
• Cross-disciplinary: Coordinated effort involving two or more academic disciplines. Finding a middle ground of sorts?
• Multidisciplinary: Relating to, or making use of several disciplines at once.  This acknowledges that there are differences between disciplines in “how the work is done”, but doesn’t have a way to bridge these differences. How do you know which discipline is more important at any one time?
• Transdisciplinary (or postdisciplinary): approaches that transcend boundaries of contentional approaches this attempts to get around the issue of methods of thinking completely by working from the problem space out. The disciplines may be related through a central theme, issue, problem, process, topic, or experience.

From Michelle Dressel