Category Archives: Interdisciplinarity

How Educators Approach Interdisciplinary Teaching: Balancing Experience and Explicit Guidance

Interdisciplinary courses are increasingly seen as essential for preparing university students for the world, yet little is known about how educators actually design and teach them. What do course leaders focus on? What pedagogies do they choose?  How do they see the roles of students and teachers? And how do they design physical and digitalContinue reading “How Educators Approach Interdisciplinary Teaching: Balancing Experience and Explicit Guidance”

ISLS 2025 Symposium

Advancing ecological conceptualizations of learning through studying world-making practices in interdisciplinary education Abstract: Learning for complex world-making practices cannot be understood without embracing theoretical perspectives that acknowledge the complexity and dynamics of the interconnected and distributed among people and their environments nature of such practices. This symposium aims to advance the conceptual foundations for studyingContinue reading “ISLS 2025 Symposium”

EOI invitation: Co-create a case for teachers’ interdisciplinary professional learning

Focus Our project team invites you to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to join our next project phase. The focus is to co-create a set of reusable resources for integrating the development of interdisciplinary expertise across formal and informal pre-service and in-service teacher education contexts. Background Informing this next phase is an ecological frameworkContinue reading “EOI invitation: Co-create a case for teachers’ interdisciplinary professional learning”

Webinar invitation: An ecological framework for teachers’ interdisciplinary learning

In this webinar, we will present an initial framework for  developing teachers’ interdisciplinary expertise.  It addresses the growing need for teachers to engage with the complex challenges of 21st-century teaching and work with knowledge from different fields. The framework is based on an ecological perspective that considers teachers’ personal resourcefulness within their immediate environment andContinue reading “Webinar invitation: An ecological framework for teachers’ interdisciplinary learning”

Webinar invitation

Teachers’ interdisciplinary expertise It is well acknowledged that interdisciplinarity is vital to future economic prosperity, health, and social wellbeing. Similarly, teachers increasingly face the need to engage in teaching practices that extend beyond their disciplinary specialisation, such as  STEM/STEAM education and other integrative teaching and learning practices. However, what kinds of interdisciplinary capabilities teachers needContinue reading “Webinar invitation”

Tools and resources to spark up interdisciplinary work

There are a range of frameworks, toolkits and associations addressing interdisciplinary practice from which we will draw over the course of our study. Below are some which you might find useful in your own work in interdisciplinary projects. This list is of course not exhaustive: please suggest further good resources in the comments or directlyContinue reading “Tools and resources to spark up interdisciplinary work”