A guide for Interdisciplinary Service Learning

Benefits of interdiscipline

Challenges of interdiscipline

1 It contributes to generate flexible thinking, develops and improves learning skills, makes understanding easier, increases the ability

2 “It allows the

1 demand the open exchange of ideas, challenging personal and institutional boundaries that act to maintain a sense of Interdisciplinary collaborations

2 Cooperating disciplines Cooperating disciplines: may not share tacit values and assumptions, theories, epistemologies, notions of appropriate evidence, methodologies, and the ways in which the disciplines interact with society. (Lélé and Norgaard 2005; Schoenberger 2001).

reinforcement of values among teachers and students, such as: flexibility, trust, patience, intuition, divergent thinking , sensitivity towards other people, and learning to move in diversity. ”

of accessing the acquired knowledge and improves skills to integrate dissimilar contexts.

ownership and authority over the territories of knowledge.

“ It facilitates and enriches the task of deconstructing complexity, to make action possible and to open up the possibility of creative answers to the usual problems.” (G. Muñoz citing to McDermott, 2014: 24).

4 “It broadens the

3 There are practical issues such as scheduling time, keeping everyone on the team informed of project Teams:

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orientation that students require within their own discipline and makes it inclusive of other areas or specialties that collaborate to a common benefit” (Posada, 2004, p. 16).

developments, and building trust (Suarez-Balcazar et al. 2006).

It brings a diversity of perspectives in the approach of effective solutions to genuine social problems (Dirección Nacional de Políticas Socioeducativas, 2016).

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