The map of learning refers to the connection between the learner and knowledge,representing both the domains and areas of learning,but also the way knowledge is organized within institutions.To bridge the divide between"two cultures"(i.e.science and humanities),avoid overspecialization in academia and expand access to higher education,Britain's New Universities started,upon their establishment in the 1960s,redrawing the map of learning and promoting interdisciplinary education.Several measures were taken to eliminate the artificially-drawn physical,institutional and academic boundaries between different disciplines:1)con-struct mixed-use buildings on campus;2)establishing interdisciplinary studies schools;3)developing interdisciplinary curriculum.Consequently,these New Universities have not only promoted the massification of British higher education,but also minimized the danger of over-specialization and facilitated the integration between science and humanities.Through redrawing the map of learning,they have achieved something never done before by those"Old Universities"and succeeded in establishing a new paradigm for British higher education.
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