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Learning to work across boundaries - opportunities for research and innovation Lina Markauskaite

STL Research Fest @ CPC 5 November 2015

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Interdisciplinary skilfulness

Harnessing “soft” and

“generic” skills

Understanding and creating better environments for learning...

Crossing disciplinary boundaries

• Collaboration science• Data thinking• Computational thinking

• Systems thinking• Design thinking• Grounded thinking &

responsive action

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Facing a methodological challenge of the science of learning interdisciplinary science(s)

“science begins when a body of phenomena is available which shows some coherence and

regularities,<then>

science consists in assimilating these regularities and in creating concepts which permit expressing

these regularities in a natural way,<and>

it is this method of science rather than the concepts themselves (such as energy) which should be

applied to other fields of learning.”

(Eugene Wigner, 1963)

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Design, implementation and development

Design-based research

Design-based implementation research

Design-based developmental implementation

research?

Design

ImplementationDevelopment