Abstract:

This paper develops a pedagogical framework for advanced knowledge acquisition sketching its outreach to multi-level students and in-service teachers. This framework is structured in two components: the methodology for mapping science concepts from a given curriculum into evidence discovered from ancient Rome texts, and the procedure for delivering them using a multidisciplinary active learning approach. We have found that enhanced learning can be fruitfully approached, as Aristotle first proposed, from inspiration through reason into practice. Incorporating the instructional activities sketched by Novak, in his concept-maps, added to the motivational drive to understand and implement knowledge, as Barrows designed, a framework based on Concept Maps (CMs) and Problem Based Learning (PBL) is constructed and evaluated. We inspire students into a transdisciplinary knowledge discovery, using the common cultural background from Ancient Rome for inspiring students within a collaborative environment and launching knowledge acquisition through experience for a joint curriculum development in a balanced process.

Keywords:

Concept-maps, Problem Based Learning, Transdisciplinary on-line education, Capacity building.