• Disciplines then have to be considered to be considerable barriers to free thinking and an obstacle to more self-governed subjectivities, which became the focus of Foucault’s later work.
• The term ‘academic discipline’ certainly incorporates many elements of the meaning of ‘discipline’ discussed above. At the same time, it has also become a technical term for the organization of learning and the systematic production of new knowledge.
• Often disciplines are identified with taught subjects, but clearly not every subject taught at university can be called a discipline.
• There is more to disciplines than the fact that something is a subject taught in an academic setting
• In fact, there is a whole list of criteria and characteristics, which indicate whether a subject is indeed a distinct discipline.

A general list of character would include:

• Disciplines have a particular object of research (e.g. law, society, Politics), though the object of research may be shared with another discipline.
• Disciplines have a body of accumulated specialist knowledge referring to their object of research, which is specific to them and not generally shared with another discipline.
• Disciplines have theories and concepts that can organize the accumulated specialist knowledge effectively.
• Disciplines use specific terminologies or a specific technical language adjusted to their research object.
• Disciplines have developed specific research methods according to their specific research requirements; and maybe most crucially
• Disciplines must have some institutional manifestation in the form of subjects taught at universities or colleges, respective academic departments and professional associations connected to it
• Only through institutionalizations are disciplines able to reproduce themselves ‘from one generation to the next by means of specific educational preparation’ A new discipline is therefore usually founded by the way of creating a professorial chair devoted to it at an established university
• Not all disciplines have all of the aforementioned six characteristics. For example, English literature has the problem that it lacks both a unifying theoretical paradigm and method and a definable stable object of research, but it still passes as an academic discipline.

Each and every discipline has definite characteristics for itself. Disciplines are separated from each other revealed to its characteristics. Generally, the characteristics of disciplines are as follows:

1. Own content: Every discipline has own specific content or subject matters or course of study at different level of teaching.
2. It is related to some professional and social activity: Various disciplines are related to different sectors of professions with their activities such as agricultural discipline is related to farming, psychology is related to behavior of human being and chemistry is related to matters. Likewise, teaching is related to profession of academic knowledge, skills and attitudes.
3. Every discipline has it's own method of study
   • There are different methods to study to their various types of discipline.
   • For examples, for the study of the contents of physics and chemistry, especially used laboratory and experimental methods
   • Library is used for the study of history and political science. On the study of discipline of education, we can especially prefer and use descriptive method, discussion method and field trip method etc as far as possible.
4. Each discipline has it's own field of investigation
   • Each and every discipline has its own sectors of investigation such as biology is related to the study of animals; Botany is related to investigate different categories of plants.
   • Similarly, education discipline is also related to investigate our society and education system, education and psychology, education and teaching child or pedagogy, philosophy and others aspects that are the central points of investigation of each discipline.
5. each discipline has its own method of investigation
   • Each and every discipline of education has its own frame of investigation and definite method of study.
   • For examples, the subject of pure science is used the experiment or laboratory method for study. On the social sciences, for in-depth investigation, most of the scholars are used survey method.