Questioning the evolution of the pandemic in an interdisciplinary way: the design of a Study and Research Path for pre-service Teacher Education

In this paper, we present the main objectives, the frame- work and one example of a module developed within IDENTITIES, an Erasmus+ project for higher education addressing the general goal to in- novate mathematics, physics, and computer science pre-service teacher education in an interdisciplinary direction. The design of the module we present, on the topic of modelling the evolution of the pandemic, is grounded on the proposal of the study and research paths for teacher ed- ucation (SRP-TE), but, since the goals of the activities were oriented to trigger questions and meta reflections about interdisciplinarity, the de- velopment of the module itself induced an evolution also in the SRP-TE structure and tools. The present analysis shows the main innovations made to properly deal with interdisciplinary aspects of the topic and the critical issues that emerged when the paradigm of “questioning the world” was applied to a topic at the boundary between different disci- plines.