FROM TELESCOPIC TOWARDS PANAROMIC VIEW OF KNOWLEDGE - FORMATION OF DISCIPLINES AND ORIGIN OF INTEGRATION AMONG DISCIPLINES

Abstract

The paper presents brief history regarding the portioning of knowledge into disciplines. The Paper opens up the debate by highlighting the origins of Disciplines and Universities, then it goes on to discuss how scientific revolution and enlightenment influenced the disciplines, how disciplines were consolidated in the late 19^th century, how the academic disciplines of the 20^th century were produced, dawn of interdisciplinary, University reforms that resulted from the initiation of interdisciplinary praxis , what made interdisciplinary studies to become an academic field and Complexity and Transdisciplinarity.