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In higher education, a discipline may refer to a specific area or body of knowledge that is researched or taught by a university faculty (such as politics, semiotics, geography, theology, physics), covering various areas of scholarly and experiential pursuit. Discipline is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour, especially training that produces moral or mental development in a particular direction. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... The University of Cambridge is an institute of higher learning. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ...

The term may also denote any training intended to develop moral character, or produce a pattern of behaviour. "Discipline" in this context, while often thought to be a coercive mechanism, can be a collaborative process of building consensus regarding accepted behavior within institutions and society. Moral character or character is an evaluation of an individuals moral qualities. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ...

Self-discipline is the ability to exercise control over one's behaviour or emotions (see self control and willpower). Self-discipline is to some extent a substitute for motivation, when one uses reason to determine a best course of action that opposes one's desires. Lord Alfred Tennyson commented on self-discipline in this way: "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power", with "self-control" meaning self-discipline. Emotional redirects here. ... Discipline is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour, especially training that produces moral or mental development in a particular direction. ... The grammar in this article needs to be checked. ... It has been suggested that Base motive be merged into this article or section. ... Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets. ...

In unionised companies, discipline of employees may be a regulated part of a collective bargaining agreement and subject to grievance procedures. A trade union or labor union is an organization of individuals associated through employment, or labour. ... Look up company in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A grievance is a formal statement of complaint, generally against an authority figure. ...

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ecclesiastical Discipline (2144 words)
	discipline is considered objectively, that is, as being the precepts and measures for the practical guidance of subjects.
	ecclesiastical discipline is the aggregate of laws and directions given by the Church to the faithful for their conduct both private and public.
	discipline anything opposed to the Divine law; the most remarkable instance of this being the suppression of the chalice in the Communion of the laity.

Discipline & Punish (1975), Panopticism (7490 words)
	'Discipline' may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or an 'anatomy' of power, a technology.
	The development of the disciplines marks the appearance of elementary techniques belonging to a quite different economy: mechanisms of power which, instead of proceeding by deduction, are integrated into the productive efficiency of the apparatuses from within, into the growth of this efficiency and into the use of what it produces.
	Hence the fact that the disciplines use procedures of partitioning and verticality, that they introduce, between the different elements at the same level, as solid separations as possible, that they define compact hierarchical networks, in short, that they oppose to the intrinsic, adverse force of multiplicity the technique of the continuous, individualizing pyramid.

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