(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2010) Lenoir, Yves; Klein, Julie Thompson
This article provides an overview of the role that interdisciplinarity plays in the
Spanish education system. With this aim, we first describe the main conception of the term
interdisciplinarity in texts written in Spanish, including other terms that have similar meaning.
Then we review the role of interdisciplinarity in the Spanish curriculum at different levels of
education, focusing fundamentally on compulsory education. This serves as the basis from
which later to analyze Spanish research on interdisciplinarity. Finally, through results of this
research and some examples of interdisciplinary school practices, we extract conclusions about
the role of interdisciplinarity in teaching practices in the classroom.