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Interdisciplinary education fosters cognitive flexibility and prepares students to tackle complex, real-world problems by integrating knowledge from multiple fields. This approach emphasizes active learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, equipping students with the adaptability needed in an increasingly interconnected world. [2]
Interdisciplinary teaching is a method, or set of methods, used to teach across curricular disciplines or "the bringing together of separate disciplines around common themes, issues, or problems.” [1] Often interdisciplinary instruction is associated with or a component of several other instructional approaches.
For over a decade, Project Zero researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education have been studying interdisciplinary work across a range of settings. They have found interdisciplinary understanding to be crucial for modern-thinking students. [2] Developing a cognitive and social model of interdisciplinary learning is still a challenge. [3]
Giesecke (1981) [1] says about educational research ("pedagogy") that is an "aporetic science", i.e. an interdiscipline. Tengström (1993) [2] emphases that cross-disciplinary research is a process, not a state or structure.
Systems thinking improves as one becomes increasingly fluent with all four elements of DSRP. Interdisciplinary thinking improves as people reconsider boundaries (i.e. distinctions) and make connections between new pieces of information. Scientific thinking improves as people learn to analyze information in a logical way.
Doing the research: Effective interdisciplinary thematic instruction requires extensive knowledge and research by the teacher. Without a broad knowledge base on which to design relevant activities and lessons, thematic lessons can become randomly selected activities loosely related to a topic that fail to demand higher level thinking from students.
Integrative thinking is a field that was developed by Graham Douglas in 1986. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is defined as the process of integrating intuition , reason , and imagination in a human mind to develop a holistic continuum of strategy, tactics, action, review, and evaluation.
Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that crosses disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research (see bioinformatics), and can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one ...