The necessity and feasibility of interdisciplinarity in pre-academic education, the collage of the future of schools

Taheri Demneh, M.; Heidari Darani, Z.

doi:10.22035/isih.2020.3557.3750

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor, Futures Studies, Department of Futures Studies, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

² Master Candidate, Futures Studies, Department of Futures Studies, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22035/isih.2020.3557.3750

Abstract

Apart from the fact that the conceptualization and application of interdisciplinary fields are still in midway, most studies in this field have focused on f the university and paid attention to the necessity of establishing an interdisciplinarity at the university. However, academic experience has shown that a student at the university who has not learned interdisciplinary skills before (in a pre-academic period or school), is weak in the understanding and use of interdisciplinarity at the university. From this viewpoint, regardless of the concept of "discipline," which remains a specialized activity in the university, the term "interdisciplinarity" expresses a set of future-oriented skills that have to be from the first stage of human development in the Education Portfolios. This paper is a theoretical and analytical attempt to extend interdisciplinarity in pre-academic literature. In this paper, first the feasibility and necessity of pre-academic interdisciplinarity are studied, and second, some practical solutions are offered to achieve this goal in order to form a collage of the future of the school. This collage is a future image of the schools where the interdisciplinary human achieves skills such as adaptability, teamwork, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving for living in a complex environment.

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Main Subjects

Interdisciplinary

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