Dowden, Tony (2007) Relevant, challenging, integrative and exploratory curriculum design: perspectives from theory and practice for middle schooling in Australia. The Australian Educational Researcher, 34 (2). pp. 51-71. ISSN 0311-6999
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Abstract
Integrative curriculum design, or student-centred curriculum integration, promises much for middle grades teachers wishing to develop classroom programmes that will encourage early adolescents to actively engage in their learning (Beane 1990, 1997). Integrative designs are highly responsive to the educational and developmental needs of young people. In contrast, student-centred multidisciplinary curriculum designs (Jacobs 1989) may result in significant but largely unrecognised drawbacks when they are applied to the middle grades.
This paper critically examines the integrative and the multidisciplinary models of curriculum integration with respect to the educational and developmental needs of students in the middle grades. It draws its data from a doctoral study that traced a century of development of curriculum integration in the USA: from John Dewey's Laboratory School a century ago through to contemporary middle schools.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Published version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Education |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2013 23:36 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2018 05:29 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | curriculum integration; integrative curriculum; multidisciplinary curriculum |
| Fields of Research : | 13 Education > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified 13 Education > 1301 Education Systems > 130106 Secondary Education 13 Education > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130309 Learning Sciences |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | C Society > 93 Education and Training > 9303 Curriculum > 930399 Curriculum not elsewhere classified |
| Identification Number or DOI: | 10.1007/BF03216857 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/23871 |
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