academic discipline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacademicanddiscipline
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academic
adjective
uk/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/us/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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discipline
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪn/us/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪn/
training that makes people more willing to obey or more able to control themselves, often in the form of rules, and punishments if these are broken, or the behaviour produced by ...
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(Definition ofacademicanddisciplinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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After its initial difficulties, it was, he declared, finally 'a respectableacademicdiscipline'.
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These developments coincided with the growing prestige of medicine as anacademicdiscipline.
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One is an applied discipline and the other is a moreacademicdiscipline, with the two having intimate connections.
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Central to this was his determination to guarantee the status of architecture as a validacademicdiscipline.
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Theacademicdisciplineof religious studies obstructs a clear view of what happens in other cultures.
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Contemporary history as anacademicdisciplinemust do its part to ensure that the vicissitudes in this common post-war history are not simply smoothed over.
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This development coincided with the growing prestige of medicine as a scientific andacademicdiscipline.
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The laws of war are far too important an issue to be left to any singleacademicdiscipline.
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These enquiries started from concerns about the health of law as anacademicdisciplineas it is rapidly becoming more cosmopolitan.
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There can be little doubt that the relatively newacademicdisciplineof medical law has been heavily shaped by ethical discourse.
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In short, whatever ouracademicdisciplineor political motivation, we need to be aware of the ways in which we too often essentialize social change.
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So what are the arguments against architecture as anacademicdiscipline?
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Eachacademicdisciplinehas its own style, set of background practices, and habits.
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This book is a pioneering attempt to make links between social policy as anacademicdisciplineand environmental concerns.
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These differences point to an important divergence in the ways that most intellectual historians and philosophers define the characteristics of anacademicdiscipline.
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The measurement of policy outcomes and programme outputs has long been seen as central to social policy as anacademicdisciplineand an administrative practice.
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Fundamental criticisms of anacademicdisciplineshould be taken seriously.
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It contributes no less to a modification of the accepted story of the origins of the history of science as anacademicdiscipline.
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The growth of anacademicdisciplineof emergency management further added to the intellectual resources of the profession.
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