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An integrated curriculum.

01 May 1970-Nursing Outlook (Nurs Outlook)-Vol. 18, Iss: 5, pp 63-66
TL;DR: Integrated teaching and learning processes enable children to acquire and use basic skills in all the content areas and to develop positive attitudes for continued successful learning throughout the elementary grades.
About: This article is published in Nursing Outlook.The article was published on 1970-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 101 citations till now.
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TL;DR: Inclusion began in the United States and Europe as a special education initiative on behalf of students with disabilities as early as the 1980s as mentioned in this paper, and it has been widely recognized as a critical issue.
Abstract: Inclusion began in the United States and Europe as a special education initiative on behalf of students with disabilities as early as the 1980s. Now, more than two decades later, schools in these countries are changing as educators, parents, politicians and communities try to prepare for the new challenges and promises of the twenty‐first century. Advances in technology, the global economy and politics, changes in what “counts” as knowledge, and the skills and abilities demanded by the businesses and industries of the future all combine to render obsolete much of what schools have been up until now. The new educational conversation centers on how to design schools and student learning for a future that many educators find nearly impossible to even imagine. How students with disabilities and special education continue to fit into this future is the ongoing challenge of inclusion. While much progress has been made, trends point to some troubling results especially for minority students, and students with so...

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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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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adapt Biggs and Collis' Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome to explain the stages of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and explain corresponding patterns of learners' intellectual functioning, from acquisition of single-subject information to transfer of inter-disciplinary knowledge to other topics, issues, or problems.
Abstract: Interdisciplinary learning is characterized by the integration of multidisciplinary knowledge across a central program theme or focus. With repeated exposure to interdisciplinary thought, learners develop more advanced epistemological beliefs, enhanced critical thinking ability and metacognitive skills, and an understanding of the relations among perspectives derived from different disciplines. Our adaptation of Biggs and Collis' (1982) Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome illustrates the stages of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and explains corresponding patterns of learners' intellectual functioning, from acquisition of single-subject information to transfer of interdisciplinary knowledge to other topics, issues, or problems.

253 citations


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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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TL;DR: A review of the literature on integrated curricula can be found in this paper, which concludes with a call to action for members of the School Science and Mathematics Association (SSA).
Abstract: Integrated curricula has gained a great deal of acceptance among educators. Many educators provide testimonials about the effectiveness of units they teach, and many professional organizations stress integration across the curriculum. However, few empirical studies exist to support the notion that an integrated curriculum is any better than a well-designed traditional curriculum. Some educators question integration across the curriculum, because in the effort to integrate topics, science and mathematics content becomes superficial and trivial. This paper presents a review of the literature on integrated curricula. It concludes with a call to action for members of School Science and Mathematics Association.

230 citations


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  • ...George, P. S. (1996)....

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TL;DR: The authors examines the theory of the integrative and the multidisciplinary models of curriculum integration with respect to middle level curriculum reform in Australian schools, and draws its data from a doctoral study (Dowden 2007) that traced a century of development in the USA: from Dewey's Laboratory School a century ago through to contemporary middle schooling.
Abstract: Integrative curriculum design promises much for middle level teachers who wish to develop classroom programmes that will encourage early adolescents to actively engage in their learning (Beane 1990, 1997). Beane’s model is highly responsive to the educational and developmental needs of young people. In contrast, multidisciplinary curriculum design (Jacobs 1989) may result in significant but largely unrecognised drawbacks when it is implemented in the middle grades. This paper critically examines the theory of the integrative and the multidisciplinary models of curriculum integration with respect to middle level curriculum reform in Australian schools. It draws its data from a doctoral study (Dowden 2007) that traced a century of development of curriculum integration in the USA: from Dewey’s Laboratory School a century ago through to contemporary middle schooling.

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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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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a design process used to successfully develop and deploy an integrated first year curriculum at Texas A&M University, which integrates the first year components of calculus, chemistry, engineering graphics, English, physics, and problem solving.
Abstract: This paper has two objectives: 1) to define, describe, and discuss integrated programs and their advantages with regard to student and faculty outcomes, as well as student retention; and 2) to describe a design process used to successfully develop and deploy an integrated first year curriculum. This paper details the results of the design process and the content of the first year integrated program implemented by the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. The curriculum integrates the first year components of calculus, chemistry, engineering graphics, English, physics, and problem solving.

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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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01 Jan 1911
TL;DR: In the summer of 1869, John Muir made his first long trip to Yosemite as discussed by the authors, where a friend offered him the chance to accompany his flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra, it was an opportunity Muir could not resist.
Abstract: In the summer of 1869, John Muir made his first long trip to Yosemite. When a friend offered him the chance to accompany his flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra, it was an opportunity Muir could not resist. My First Summer in the Sierra is the journal he kept of those summer days, of the wildlife and plant life, and of his explorations into the magical places of the mountains.

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