Interdisciplinary teaching refers to an interdisciplinary comprehensive teaching method. In the process of finding and solving practical problems, only when the knowledge and methods of a single subject are not enough, will interdisciplinary needs arise. Interdisciplinary teaching points to the construction of students' knowledge structure, and its purpose is that students can flexibly use their own knowledge system to solve problems when facing new problems.
Interdisciplinary research is one of the hot topics of scientific method discussion. The purpose of interdisciplinary research is to transcend the previous classification research methods and realize the integrated research on problems.
Most promising emerging disciplines in the world are interdisciplinary. In recent years, a large number of scientists who use interdisciplinary methods or engage in interdisciplinary research and cooperation have successively won Nobel Prizes, which proves this point again. As far as its depth is concerned, interdisciplinary research itself also embodies a new paradigm of contemporary scientific exploration.
Historical background:
Human beings have been conducting interdisciplinary research for a long time, but the real interdisciplinary research was gradually formed after the establishment of various disciplines in modern times. One of the most famous is analytic geometry invented by Descartes by crossing algebra and geometry. It not only changed the situation that the two disciplines were separated from each other for two thousand years, but also created conditions for the invention of calculus.
Since then, with the development of science, interdisciplinary research has appeared in various forms and fields, making interdisciplinary research a common phenomenon in science. The word interdisciplinary first appeared in new york, USA in the 1920s, and its original meaning was roughly equivalent to cooperative research.
China held the "Interdisciplinary Science Conference" in 1985, and the word "Interdisciplinary Science (or Discipline)" was widely circulated in the scientific community. In the early days, people basically did not distinguish between interdisciplinary science and interdisciplinary science. After 1990s, some scholars began to use the term "interdisciplinary" instead of interdisciplinary science.
Today, it seems that interdisciplinary or scientific research is still in the primary stage of interdisciplinary research, because such a research is limited to existing disciplines, and disciplines are artificially set. Therefore, in order to make greater research progress, we must break through the limitation of subject division and move towards a wider and higher level of interdisciplinary research.