ABSTRACT
Big history is a modern scientific origin story, exploring 13.8 billion years of shared knowledge and challenging intellectual boundaries by proffering a framework to connect that knowledge. A by-product of integrating big history into a traditional secondary classroom is an amplification of this process, challenging the boundaries of traditional curriculum structures, the role of discipline trained teachers and approaches to knowledge in the classroom. Approaches to the organization and integration of knowledge can be viewed along a four-point continuum, positioning discrete disciplines at one end in the form of disciplinarity, and the transcendence of disciplines at the other in the form of transdisciplinarity. In 2018 the Big History Institute, Macquarie University will launch Big History School, a comprehensive online resource refining and expanding the work of Big History Project to meet the needs of a range of schooling levels, across multiple regions, in multiple languages.
