We describe a coherent, eclectic approach to interpreting, representing, and integrating knowledge from different scientific disciplines or communities of practice. The approach, called ECLECTIC, draws from a complementary blend of ethnological methods, the hermeneutic analysis of domains, and ecology. Our description focuses on the conceptual bases of this approach, its value, and uses, partic...

This paper examines how various “Western” approaches to teaching languages are influencing how Indigenous languages are currently being taught. A two-dimensional model of approaches to language teaching is described and compared to research on language teaching in general and indigenous language teaching in particular. The paper concludes with a recommendation that language educators use a prin...

The plethora of existing data models and specific data modeling techniques is not only confusing but leads to complex, eclectic and inefficient designs of systems for data management and analytics. The main goal of this paper is to describe a unified approach to data modeling, called the concept-oriented model (COM), by using functions as a basis for its formalization. COM tries to answer the q...

Objective/Context: This article aims to explain the causes of virtual disintegration Union South American Nations (UNASUR) from perspective analytical eclecticism. It is part growing literature around debate on end International Relations theory in which eclecticism and integrative pluralism emerge as viable but contested explanatory strategies. Methodology: Based recent historical evidence a v...