Learning and Performance Across Disciplines: An Epilogue for Moving Multidisciplinary Research Toward an Interdisciplinary Science of Expertise

We conclude this special issue, not with a summary, but with a forward look. We consider a number of issues related to those presented in this special issue, with the goal of suggesting how we might build upon the tremendous body of work in sports research. We begin with a discussion of the issues surrounding what it means to create interdisciplinarity in a domain of inquiry. Then, we briefly discuss potential ways of adopting methods and concepts from the contributing disciplines. Following this, we discuss notions of self-improvement in learning and integrate this with a continuum of expertise development that is appropriate to the context of the contributions to this special issue. We conclude with a discussion of a set of research directions for interdisciplinary studies of the development of expertise.