What is the difference between the inter -disciplinary approach and integrated approach to organise the social sciences. Whether our books are integrated or inter-disciplinary?
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Staff talked about integration in different ways and this seemed to be related to the individual’s role and to be influenced by the local context. In general, commissioning and strategic staff described ‘integration’ in terms of organisational structural alignment, citing examples such as aligned budgets, jointly funded posts, joint commissioning units/boards and the merger of organisations in line with Transforming Community Services35 policy. They tended to focus on horizontal integration; that is, integration between the PCT and LA social care.
Practitioners, on the other hand, tended to focus on integration in service delivery and described integration in two ways: multiprofessional working within teams and working with front-line stakeholders in other organisations/sectors. In one case study site, as major structural changes got under way that would result in an integrated health and social care organisation, front-line staff started to use ‘integration’ to describe these structural changes and used ‘joint working’ to describe interdisciplinary practice inside and outside their team. Although front-line staff described the importance of vertical integration, such as working with acute care providers, they, like commissioners, tended to focus on horizontal integration, but they were more likely to discuss wider organisational integration, for example with the voluntary, housing and employment sectors.
Answer:
Interdisciplinary approach is when the curriculum is based on different subjects whereas integrated approach is competence based.
Explanation:
Interdisciplinary approach involves studying of different subjects while integrated approach involves the study based on competence whereby one learns based on what his interests are .
On this form of education the subjects are usually integrated and mixed to meet a combination of interest.