Moray House School of Education and Sport

Pupils 'would benefit from thinking like Da Vinci'

Researchers demonstrate need for trans-disciplinary education.

Moray House’s Dr Laura Colucci-Gray, along with colleagues from Cambridge University, publishes a study which shows a compelling case for shaking up the school curriculum. 

Drawing inspiration from polymaths like Leonardo Da Vinci, they argue that pupils would benefit from learning through arts and science perspectives taught at the same time rather than in their traditional silos.

Solving real world problems, such as climate change and food shortages, will require adults of the future to have a ‘trans-disciplinary’ approach, able to draw on skills from across the spectrum of knowledge.

The nature of these problems calls for a radically different approach to knowledge. We are proposing a move from the idea of a curriculum as something children are just ‘given’ to a curriculum ‘in the making’, in response to transformations that will define their lives.

Dr Colucci-Gray

Dr Colucci-Gray

Read "Transdisciplinarity: letting arts and science teach together"