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IDL in Teacher Education, Part Two: Planning for IDL Through Dramatic Enquiry
In part one of this two-part article, I exemplified how my student primary teachers critically examine CfE guidance on IDL. In this second post, I…
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Nikki Doig
IDL in Teacher Education, Part One: The IDL Implementation Gap
Within Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), interdisciplinary learning (IDL) is one of four contexts for learning (along with curriculum areas…
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Nikki Doig
How can maths teachers engage with the climate emergency?
The maths classroom is often seen as a place of simple right and wrong answers and rote learning but it can and should be a place where children learn…
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Tom Bird
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What is a discipline? – the importance of subject knowledge in IDL
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IDL in Teacher Education, Part One: The IDL Implementation Gap
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How can maths teachers engage with the climate emergency?
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The Christmas Break?
It’s that time of year when many teachers, pupils and parents feel like they are crawling to the festive finish line, eager for a mince-pie-filled break…
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Blair Minchin
Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability: Teaching Resources
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow is a critically important intergovernmental meeting of world leaders and scientists if irreversible…
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Colin Graham
Should future learning be problem-based?
It is now widely recognised that, from both theoretical and practical perspectives, the old ways of structuring knowledge in a curriculum by dividing…
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Carl Gombrich
Has the time to connect finally come?
Three recent events, which at first seemed totally unconnected, prompted me to think about where we are with interdisciplinary learning (IDL) in our…
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Ken Muir
Is it hard to be soft?
Assembled in the room were the senior civil servant and his top team responsible for education in Scotland. My job was to present what 22,000 employers…
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Alan Sinclair
Is IDL just another Educational initiative?
The education system is notorious for its ‘new initiatives’. Understandably, we repeatedly aim to raise attainment by motivating the less than…
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Morag Pendry
What is IDL?
"The student who can begin in early life to think of things as connected.....has begun the life of learning". Mark van Doren (poet, writer, critic…
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Colin Graham
The IDL Network
The IDL Network is one of several outcomes of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (RSE) 2019 conference on “Interdisciplinary Learning: Creative Thinking…
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Colin Graham
What is a discipline? – the importance of subject knowledge in IDL
When talking about IDL and its development, it’s helpful to remind ourselves what disciplines and school subjects are and why they are important in IDL…
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Colin Graham
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