TRANSDISCIPLINARY LEARNING

DISCIPLINARY Knowledge, skills, understandings within one learning area

MULTIDISCIPLINARY Learning a topic across several learning areas simultaneously

INTERDISCIPLINARY Transferring the methods, models, processes or forms of logic from one learning area & applying these within another(eg applying math equation to calculate an ecological footprint)

TRANSDISCIPLINARY(word coined by Jean Piaget 1970)Focus on issues across learning areas, between them & beyond them, for the emergence of new & broader perspectives & for deeper understanding of the inter-relatedness of complex issues. Enables new possibilities & potentialities.

by Joy de Leo http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/apeid/Conference/ppt/deleo_PPT.pdf

Key resources we rely on:

NZEI "The Connected Curriculum"; http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/lwf/dl/nicolescu_f.pdf
 * The transdisciplinary evolution of learning by Basarab Nicolescu

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