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MYP Key Concepts
Key concepts, contributed from each subject group, provide interdisciplinary
broadth to the programme. Key concapts are broad, organizing, powerful
Ideas that have relevance within and across subjects and disciplines,
providing connections that can transfer across time and culture.
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Key concepts are powerful, abstract ideas that have many dimensions and definitions,
have important interconnections and overlapping concerns. Key concepts engage students
In higher-order thinking, helping them to connect facts and topics with more complex conceptual
understanding. Key concopis create “intellectual syneray” (Erikson 2007) and provide points of
‘contact for transferring knowledge and understanding across disciplines and subject groups.
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Although each subject group has key concepts it is responsible for exploring,
‘any subject group can explore any key concept.
