"isolated discipline" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a form of discipline that is separate from other forms, either by intention or necessity. For example: "The prisoner was subjected to an isolated discipline regime, which kept him completely separated from the other inmates."
"The idea is to make science less of an isolated discipline," Mr. Cass said.
The idea of philosophy as an isolated discipline, Appiah argues, is a relatively newfangled idea, and not a good one.
At the present time, this new interdisciplinary topic is still the property of an isolated discipline with all too little effort spent in pointing out an underlying generality that could make it adaptable to diverse fields of applications.
The majority of courses teach the content of one isolated discipline.
Although the idea of integrated STEM is present in these national documents, the STEM fields are in practice most often taught as isolated disciplines.
Moreover, school science is usually fragmented in different, strictly isolated disciplines, and/or presented in contexts of limited interest for students, thus failing to provide students with a coherent picture (Siegel and Ranney 2003).
Over the last few decades, STEM education was focused on improving science and mathematics as isolated disciplines (Breiner et al. 2012; Sanders 2009; Wang et al. 2011) with little integration and attention given to technology or engineering (Bybee 2010; Hoachlander and Yanofsky 2011).
He challenged students with the idea that their economics and finance are not isolated disciplines, but parts of a larger network of knowledge linked to physics, biology, social science, philosophy, literature, and mathematics.
In summary, biodiversity research has all the ingredients to have a big future: a real urgency (that's the gloomy bit), but also the ability to engage people and unite them; new tools to connect and visualize millions of individual data points, and the disappearance of boundaries between previously more isolated disciplines.
Despite recent progress, the state of research continues to be underfunded and isolated within disciplines, frustrating broader application of findings to actual preventive activity by governments.
Despite this growth, guidance on this technique is often isolated within disciplines.
