Interdisciplinary Learning

“Interdisciplinarity” means finding out what happens when you combine subjects—maths with design, anthropology with data science, statistics with philosophy—to generate hybrid knowledge.  

Education Scotland defines 'Interdisciplinary Learning as a planned experience that brings disciplines together in one coherent programme or project. The different disciplines plan and execute as one. These disciplines might fall within one curricular area (e.g. languages, the sciences) or between several curricular areas. IDL enables children and young people to 

● learn new knowledge or skills, and develop new understanding of concepts; 

● draw on prior knowledge, understanding and skills; 

● transfer and apply that collective knowledge to new problems or other areas of learning. 

This is different from learning, for example, which takes place when several disciplines or subjects are linked up through a common theme or topic, but the student’s experience and educator planning is discreet, or separate in each discipline or subject. This can be referred to as multi-disciplinary learning. 

Do we have any resources from Phil A at Bohunt we could add here?