INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN TEACHER EDUCATION

Human knowledge has become so complex nowadays that it outstrips human ability to accumulate it and increasingly complex world issues are beyond the capability of isolated disciplines to solve them. Education is under pressure to work out new ways to generate and transfer knowledge. The paper offers insights into the various strategies of compressing the learning content and codifying emerging data in education. Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in education are described as a strategy of curriculum modernization that successfully tackles information overload. Although researchers elaborate the conceptual connections between integration and evolutionary processes in education and propose different approaches to adapting ideas of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in higher education, there is still a paucity of literature on the practicalities of their implementation in teacher training programs. The paper innovates by uncovering the pathway for initiating interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in teacher education. It presents methodology guidelines for transdisciplinary learning and a model for interdisciplinary curriculum as a sequence of teaching strategies which comply with students' cognitive progression. Although the model was developed from teacher education program it is jargon-free and can augment its appeal within other training programs. The paper concludes with an outlook on future work seeking to tap the potential of integrated curriculum in teacher training programs. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK