The Concept of a Transdiscipline: And of Evaluation as a Transdiscipline

here are two main meanings of this term that can be disinterred from the 8,000+ references to their definition in Google (at December 12, 2007), both of them sharing the idea of a discipline that crosses over the boundaries between many other disciplines: we can distinguish them as the ‘point of view ’ sense of the term and the ‘method ’ sense of the term. These senses are not sharply distinct from each other, but are distinct from ‘interdiscipline’ meaning a compound approach drawing from or working in the boundary area between two or sometimes more other disciplines; and from ‘multidiscipline ’ meaning a compound approach involving more than two other disciplines.1 I