TY - GEN
T1 - Teachers' and principals' views of interdisciplinary learning
AU - Cohen, Etan
AU - Marcus, Gad
AU - Gavish, Uri
AU - Yehi-Shalom, Oren
AU - Novis-Deutsch, Nurit
AU - Alexander, Hanan
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © ISLS.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Little is known about how teachers and principals view interdisciplinarity at the K-12 level. In recent years, we have been working with Israel's Ministry of Education and ten secondary schools to develop and enact interdisciplinary curricula in the humanities. During this partnership, we conducted a series of twenty-four interviews with teachers and principals, to glean their views of interdisciplinarity. We found that they understood interdisciplinarity as a broad reform with the potential to impact school life in myriad ways. Moreover, their views on the definitions, potential benefits, and ways to enact interdisciplinarity at the K-12 level extended beyond a cognitive lens, to include sociocultural and critical interpretations as well. Ultimately, we believe that teachers and principals are uniquely situated, and that their points of view could contribute to a grounded theory of interdisciplinarity at the K-12 level, which is currently lacking.
AB - Little is known about how teachers and principals view interdisciplinarity at the K-12 level. In recent years, we have been working with Israel's Ministry of Education and ten secondary schools to develop and enact interdisciplinary curricula in the humanities. During this partnership, we conducted a series of twenty-four interviews with teachers and principals, to glean their views of interdisciplinarity. We found that they understood interdisciplinarity as a broad reform with the potential to impact school life in myriad ways. Moreover, their views on the definitions, potential benefits, and ways to enact interdisciplinarity at the K-12 level extended beyond a cognitive lens, to include sociocultural and critical interpretations as well. Ultimately, we believe that teachers and principals are uniquely situated, and that their points of view could contribute to a grounded theory of interdisciplinarity at the K-12 level, which is currently lacking.
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M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
SP - 123
EP - 130
BT - International Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All
A2 - Chinn, Clark
A2 - Tan, Edna
A2 - Chan, Carol
A2 - Kali, Yael
T2 - 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022
Y2 - 6 June 2022 through 10 June 2022
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