Transdisciplinarity: Shaping the Future by Reading the Word and Reading the World in an Eighth Grade Classroom
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2012
Abstract
In this essay I pose questions to literacy teacher educators and classroom teachers to inspire them to review their epistemological beliefs about teaching, learning, and knowledge. I also provide some history of transdisciplinarity, and introduce readers to "Miss Smith", a composite of five middle school teachers who hold a transdisciplinary orientation. Next, I connect some important tenets of transdisciplinarity to a holistic inquiry conducted by Miss Smith and her students. An expert in curriculum and educational policy then offers a response commentary about the power and challenges of transdisciplinary teaching. I conclude the essay with some final questions for readers to prompt their thinking about the dominant standards-based assessments in United States schools today and the feasibility of a future transdisciplinary curriculum.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Reading Improvement, v. 49, issue 1, p. 6-16
Scholar Commons Citation
Richards, Janet and Kroeger, Diane, "Transdisciplinarity: Shaping the Future by Reading the Word and Reading the World in an Eighth Grade Classroom" (2012). Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 578.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tal_facpub/578
