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education curricula lines, between curricula with a focus on narrow and broad IDT and between educational contexts (Boix Mansilla & Duraising, 2007; Nikitina, 2005, 2006).
To summarize, while interdisciplinary higher education is commonly practiced nowadays, a surprisingly small body of theory has accumulated. The present systematic review has analysed some of that theory in order to establish a platform from which the theory of interdisciplinary higher education can be moved forward. It is hoped that this will encourage further empirical research that will lead in time to a framework for interdisciplinary higher education design and will deepen understanding of the nature of teaching and learning IDT.
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