1. Related Terminology • 2. Concept • 3. Interdisciplinary approach in Nepalese curriculum • 4. Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Learning • 5. Significance learning • 6. Strengths and Weakness of Interdisciplinary Education

1. P R E S E N T E D B Y : - S Y E D J A U WA D
INTERDISCIPLINARY
APPROACHES TO EDUCATION

2. SCOPES
• 1. Related Terminology
• 2. Concept
• 3. Interdisciplinary approach in Nepalese curriculum
• 4. Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Learning
• 5. Significance learning
• 6. Strengths and Weakness of Interdisciplinary
Education

3. RELATED TERMINOLOGY
• • A disciplinary or holistic courses attempt to gain
• comprehensive picture without specific
• attention to disciplines or professional fields.
• • Multi-disciplinary: a term used to study different
• disciplines or subject separately to understand
• phenomena

4. INTERDISCIPLINARY
• • Two or more disciplines are brought together,
• preferably in such a way that the disciplines interact
• with one another and have some effect on one
• another's perspectives (Rowntree, 1982, p. 135)
• • Integration of multidisciplinary knowledge across a
• central program (Ivanistskyaya, Clark, Montgomery and
• Primeau, 2002)
• • Involvement of several different professional areas
• (Ivanistskyaya, Clark, Montgomery and Primeau, 2002)

5. SOCIAL MARKETING DEMANDS
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
• 1. Commercial marketing
• 2. Social anthropology
• 3. Behavioral psychology
• 4. Communication theory
• 5. Education

6. PERSPECTIVES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY
LEARNING
• 1. It facilitates the development of structural
• knowledge: an understanding of higher-order
• relationships and organizing principles
• 2. Encourage to perceive the connections between
• seemingly unrelated domains, thereby facilitating
• a personalized process of organizing knowledge.
• 3. Assimilate newly integrated concepts with prior
• knowledge and experience

7. INTERDISCIPLINARY PROMOTES SIGNIFICANT
LEARNING
• 1. Foundational Knowledge acquiring information and
• understanding ideas
• 2. Application – acquiring an understanding of how and
when to
• use skills
• 3. Integration – the capacity to connect ideas
• 4. Human Dimension - recognition of the social and personal
• implications of issues
• 5. Learning How-to-Learn – obtaining insights into the
process of
• learning

8. AN EXAMPLE OF A SUBJECT THAT TAKES AN
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
• Main
• issue
• Homosexuality: In particular, the different perspectives
• and views of homosexuality
• Disciplines
• to be
• integrated
• Discipline 1: Biology
• Understand and take a position on the extent to which
• homosexuality is acquired or innate
• Discipline 2: Laws, rights and politics
• Understand and evaluate the current policy, laws and rights
• about homosexuality and their social effects
• Discipline 4: Theology
• Understand and evaluate the reasoning behind the positions
• taken by various religious groups
• Discipline 5: Psychology and Sociology
• Understand the psychological and sociological implications
• of particular views about homosexuality

9. CHALLENGES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY
• 1. Misunderstanding of disciplines
• 2. Over-reliance on one theory or perspective
• 3. Integration confusion, time consuming in curriculum
• preparation
• 4. Lack of sufficient time for collaboration work
• 5. Overlapping roles
• 6. Territorial and status conflict
• 7. Inadequate funding
• 8. Isolate from the core of own field
• 9. Lacks specific understand knowledge

10. REFERENCE
• Jones, C. (2010). Interdisciplinary approach-advantages,
• disadvantages and future benefits of interdisciplinary
• studies. ESSI, 7 (1). College of Dupage
• Ivanistskaya, L., Clark, D., Montgomery, G., & Primeau, R.
• (2002). Interdisciplinary learning: process and
• outcomes. Innovation Higher Educaiton, 27 (2). Human
• Sciences Press, Inc.
• Golding, C. (2009). Integrating the discipline: successful
• interdisciplinary subjects. Center for the study of higher
• education. The University of MELBOUNE.
• Bennett, S. (Feb, 2012). Increasing psychology’s role in
• interdisciplinary science. 43 (2) Monitor ON
• PSYCHOLOGY. APA Publication.