K-12 Education

Though scholars associated with AIS have tended to focus on university education, there has been a longstanding interest in K-12 education as well. The K-12 educational system has also been dominated historically by a rigid set of "subjects" taught in isolation despite their obvious inter-relatedness.

Yves Lenoir, "Interdisciplinarity in Francophone education: The weal and woe of a research journey," Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 31 (2013),123-48, provides an overview of the challenges in introducing interdisciplinarity into the K-12 curriculum [in the Francophone world in particular], and provides much advice on how to do so. He urges the pursuit of convergence and complementarity, not the replacement of disciplines. The function of each discipline within overall learning should be identified. We should stress integrating knowledge from different disciplines.

Volume 28 of Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 31 (2010), edited by Yves Lenoir and Julie Thompson Klein, surveyed the international experience with respect to interdisciplinarity at the K-12 level.