Importance Of Interdisciplinary Curriculum

Human beings are designed to cooperate and collaborate with systems, their bodies are organisms that work in cooperation. In fact, every aspect of biology is interdependent of each other. Interdisciplinary curriculums with an integrated learning approach (I-I), constitutes an exterior representation of our interior-natural functionality and consequently, a natural way of learning. An overall implementation of an (I-I) methodology in the American educational system will ensure students into seeing a more accurate picture of their interconnected current reality, capitalize new insights through the rigorous academic training of the disciplines, and provide real-world professional practical experiences. This approach to education will give students the tools to perform and excel in their desired discipline, …show more content…
When an education system focuses solely on the language and the rigor of specific disciplines it gives birth to students that operate in the world with a limited view. Also, it may lead to a silo mentality, which is an attitude that happens when a discipline does not want to share information or knowledge with other disciplines. Interdisciplinary curriculums recognize and include the diversity of disciplines, cultures, and ideas; simultaneously, motivates the student to include all possible perspectives, their unique differences and their commonalities as a powerful source for growth and understanding. A full and integrated embodiment of a discipline is the result of including interdisciplinary studies in the learning process. Nevertheless, a point that can not be overlooked is that disciplines have a unique personality, they have a specific voice to communicate and concrete lenses which through students see the world. On the other hand, Newell (2010) defines interdisciplinary studies, as the process of answering questions to a problem that is too broad and complex to be addressed by a single discipline (Newell, 2010 para.2). For example,