This book provides a practical philosophy for promoting students' sophisticated thinking from
Early Childhood to PhD in ways that explicitly interconnect across the years of education. It
will help teachers academics and the broader learning and teaching community to understand and
implement these connections by introducing a conceptual framework the Models of Engaged
Learning and Teaching (MELT). By covering the nature philosophy practice and implications of
MELT for teachers and students alike the book will help teachers to facilitate students'
awareness of and increasing responsibility for the thinking demanded by subject and
discipline-specific learning as well as interdisciplinary learning whether face to face
online or in blended modes. The book will also provide educators with ways to effectively
engage with complex and sometimes conflicting contemporary educational concepts and with a
diverse variety of colleagues involved in the learning and teaching enterprise. The book
provides guidance that allows curriculum improvement teacher action research and larger-scale
research to be reported on from a common perspective bridging the gap between those readers
focused on research and those focused on teaching. The book shares valuable insights and ways
of addressing the contemporary issue of discipline-based learning versus transdisciplinary
learning reducing the dichotomy and enabling the two approaches to complement each other. This
is an Open Access book.
