An integrated curriculum.
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...Strategies such as project- and problem-based curriculum design and integrating various subjects into study of a broader problem, theme or project (e.g., Lake 2001) are ways to ensure that the resulting curriculum is interesting, engaging and meaningful to students....
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...Lake (1994) has argued that learners in interdisciplinary programs are guided beyond simpler forms of knowledge acquisition to a deeper assimilation of cross-disciplinary concepts....
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...George, P. S. (1996)....
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...In addition, the confusion and ambiguity has been compounded by the popular but mistaken notion (Beane 1997) that curriculum integration can be classified as a 'continuum' of models (see, for example, Drake 1993, Fogarty 1991, Lake 1994, jacobs 1989)....
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...4) Other Reasons: Another reason for considering an integrated curriculum is that there are many schools implementing such curricula reforms.(14) The fact that other schools are developing an integrated curriculum is not a scientific reason for integrated curriculum; however, it does provide significant anecdotal evidence for such integration....
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...Muir, 1911...
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