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Our goal is to call teachers’ attention to the need for selfrenewal,
challenging them to consider it a necessary approach
to innovating interdisciplinary education. Our prescription for
sustained self-renewal: Each teacher assembles a gallery of
intellectual heroes — gifted and articulate thinkers — to serve
as their own life-long teachers. In this paper, we share our
experience teaching a “skills course” to interdisciplinary
graduate students in Purdue University’s Center on Aging and
the Life Course. The course, titled “To See and To Seize
Opportunities”, exposes scholars-in-training to an array of
skills and attitudes that foster self-renewal and peak
performance. Leading educators must work hard to create
better opportunities for self-renewal. By envisioning even our
best teachers as unfinished and under construction, we open up
a new dialogue situating the self-renewal of teachers at the very
core of educational excellence across a broad range of
disciplines. To innovate interdisciplinary education, we
believe it is time for a curricular re-think, emphasizing the
importance of a transdisciplinary skills course in which
teachers and their students can explore transformative ideas on
personal development and self-renewal — in the classroom
together.
