Module 1 Lesson 2
Module 1 Lesson 2
Module 1 Lesson 2
Interdisciplinary Approach
Transdisciplinary Approach
Multidisciplinary Approach
approach focuses
primarily on
different disciplines
Interdisciplinary Approach
organize and
capsulize the
curriculum around
common learning
across disciplines
to emphasize
interdisciplinary
skills and concepts
Transdisciplinary Approach
design a curriculum
within student needs
and concerns
Comparing and Contrasting
the Three Approaches to
Integration
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
Aspect Multidisciplinary Interdisciplinary Transdisciplinary
Organizing • Standards of the • Interdisciplinary • Real-life context
Center disciplines organized skills and concepts • Student questions
around a theme embedded in
disciplinary
standards
Conceptualiza • Knowledge best • Disciplines • All knowledge
-tion of learned through the connected by interconnected and
Knowledge structure of the common interdependent
disciplines concepts and skills • Many right answers
• A right answer • Knowledge • Knowledge
• One truth considered to be considered to be
socially indeterminate and
constructed ambiguous
• Many right
answers
Aspect Multidisciplinary Interdisciplinary Transdisciplinary
Role of Disciplines • Procedures of • Interdisciplinary • Disciplines
discipline skills and concepts identified if
considered most stressed desired, but real-
important life context
• Distinct skills and emphasized
concepts of
discipline taught
Media
Literacy