And the Walls Come Folding Down: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Building Awareness, Balance, and Connection in Ourselves, Our Schools, in Our Communities, and in Our World
- Autores: Karen Melaas
- Localización: Global Education Magazine, ISSN-e 2255-033X, Nº. 7, 2014
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The twenty-first century offers educators an extraordinary opportunity to employ constructivist teaching and learning. The current era allows us, perhaps more than ever before, to honor the core individuality of every learner. There is one idea within constructivism that some have come to call transdisciplinary study. This is a study where there are no real or tangible separations between disciplines. The walls that often separate classrooms, are no longer employed or even evident. Using transdisciplinary study, students are encouraged to seek creative ways to solve complex problems, to explore healthy and empathic leadership, to address language as a core of human existence, and to internationalize their understanding of many of the issues that face humanity. Aided by technology for the twenty-first century, transdisciplinary study has the capacity to promote an authentic seamlessness between learning and living, between who we are and so much that we are able to accomplish in working together.
