Interdisciplinary teaching helps students overcome the tendency to support their preconceived notions. Teachers can use the interdisciplinary approach to introduce students to subject content from different perspectives. It also challenges their existing notions and allows students to look at where they came from. Once the student has set their preexisting notions aside, they allow themselves to adopt a range of methods that promote learning.
Research shows that interdisciplinary teaching increases motivation for learning. It also increases the level of active engagement. Those who take part in interdisciplinary learning become more involved in the process and recognize the value of what they have learned. When compared to learning methods in isolation, students participating in interdisciplinary learning understand new information better.
Teachers who use the interdisciplinary approach help students to develop cognitive skills that are necessary to carry out tasks. Students develop both procedural and declarative knowledge, which is needed to solve complex problems. Interdisciplinary learning enhances students knowledge formation capacity, so they can engage in discussion of complex issues with their teachers.
Greater learning occurs when teachers expose a range of skills and meaningful insight about the educational process to students. Teachers using the interdisciplinary approach encourage students to examine the disciplines that focus on social interaction when studying problems. As a result, interdisciplinary learning advances students understanding of how to learn by combining ideas from multiple disciplines together.