Integrative learning

"[1]Integrated studies involve bringing together traditionally separate subjects so that students can grasp a more authentic understanding.

Veronica Boix Mansilla, cofounder of the Interdisciplinary Studies Project at Project Zero, explains "when [students] can bring together concepts, methods, or languages from two or more disciplines or established areas of expertise in order to explain a phenomenon, solve a problem, create a product, or raise a new question" they are demonstrating interdisciplinary understanding.

For over a decade, Project Zero researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education have been studying interdisciplinary work across a range of settings.

[4] AP government teacher Dayna Laur states that, "Integrated studies projects [aim to] create a connectedness between disciplines that otherwise might seem unrelated to many students.

"[5][6] In many American medical schools, an integrated curriculum refers to a non-compartmentalized approach to basic science learning.