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Simple Knowledge Organization System. UNESCO nomenclature for fields of science and technology: Overview

Field of science and technology classification

Scan the extracts below and say which one the following subheadings refer to.

2.Well Rounded Curriculum – An Insight from Biglan's classification of disciplines (by Sanjay Goel)

3. Implications for Curriculum Design

A

The Proposed international standard nomenclature for fields of science and technology was proposed in 1973 and 1974 by the Division of Science Policy and Statistics for Science and Technology of UNESCO and adopted by the Scientific Advisory Committee. This is a classification system widely used in knowledge management of research projects and dissertations. Categories are divided into three hierarchical levels:

• Fields: Refering to general sections. Encoded with two digits and comprises several disciplines.
• Disciplines: Provide an overview of specialty groups in Science and Technology. Encoded with four digits. Despite being different from each other disciplines with cross references, or within the same field, are considered to have common characteristics.
• Subdisciplines: Entries are the more specific elements of the nomenclature and represent the activities that take place within a discipline. Encoded with six digits. In turn, must correspond to individual specialties in science and technology.

This SKOS implementation groups the different categories of the classification into a single concept scheme (skos: Conceptscheme). http://skos.um.es/unesco6

B

This classification is the Eurostat standard code list for the classification of fields of science and technology (FOS 2007). The classification of field of science is based on the nomenclature suggested by UNESCO: Recommendation concerning the International Standardisation of Statistics on Science and Technology.

FOS 2007 defines six fields of science, which are:

• natural sciences,
• engineering and technology,
• medical sciences,
• agricultural sciences,
• social sciences, and
• humanities.

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/catalogue/asset_release/field-science-and-technology-classification

C

Discipline is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a branch of learning or scholarly instruction." Fields of study as defined by academic discipline provide the framework for a student's program of college or postbaccalaureate study, and as such, define the academic world inhabited by scholars. Training in a discipline results in a system of orderly behavior recognized as characteristic of the discipline. Such behaviors are manifested in scholars' approaches to understanding and investigating new knowledge, ways of working, and perspectives on the world around them.

http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1723/Academic-Disciplines.html#ixzz3XwX1rALR

D

In 1973, Biglan classified academic disciplines along three dimensions. Each of these dimensions were broadly classifies into two categories – hard vs soft, pure vs applied, and life vs non-life.