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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
October 2022
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
December 2021
November 2021
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
August 2021
June 2021
May 2021
December 2020
November 2020
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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