Teaching practices with an interdisciplinary approach
Teaching practices with an interdisciplinary approach

Summary/Abstract: Interdisciplinarity facilitates the learning process through which the learner experiences the connections between his reality and that of the world, through concrete learning activities requiring an act of personal and social engagement. The integration of interdisciplinary educational activities stimulates students to find concrete meaning in learning. The students learn to make connections between concepts and skills in related subjects and, subsequently, with everyday life. We must build a bridge between the disciplines based on the similarities established between them in terms of learning content, concepts and technical and cognitive skills. The integration of subjects allows teachers to go beyond textbooks in order to make learning more meaningful and satisfying for the learner. Interdisciplinary projects also offer a more enriched knowledge of the subject under study, an openness to what other disciplines can offer and a better perception of the role of disciplines. A learner preparing an interdisciplinary project focuses as much on “how he learns”, that is to say, on the development of his personal data collection method and problem solving as well as the establishment of links between the subjects and the concepts learned for each isolated subject. Interdisciplinarity contributes to the development of better social and cultural interaction and the ability to solve everyday problems. Interdisciplinarity also promotes the development of higher cognitive skills such as critical thinking, the spirit of synthesis and integration, reflective skills, the understanding of difficult concepts and conceptual memory. Interdisciplinarity seems to result in better learning of better attitudes among students and a better relationship between teachers and students. In addition to contributing to the construction of learning, interdisciplinarity promotes the integration and updating of the person.

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