Integrated Curricula and Cultural Change: A Question of Why?

Autor/in	Blenkinsop, Sean
Titel	Integrated Curricula and Cultural Change: A Question of Why?
Quelle	In: Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 24 (2011) 1, S.21-23 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0840-8114
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Integrated Curriculum; Educational Change; Role of Education; Cultural Traits; Theory Practice Relationship; Elementary Education; Environmental Education; Sustainability; School Culture; World Views; Place Based Education; Ecology; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Bildungsauftrag; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Elementarunterricht; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Nachhaltigkeit; Schulkultur; Schulleben; World view; Weltanschauung; Ökologie; Kanada
Abstract	The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to describe a large research project, which has integrated curricula and is currently emerging as a publicly funded K-7 place-based, imaginative, and ecological learning centre in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; second, to spend some time exploring more deeply the theoretical implications of the project and why integrated curricula are necessary. The challenges for the project have consistently been multi-faceted and multi-layered. For example, there is an onus upon the project to have theory and practice align and yet, given the complexity of the project and the incompleteness of both theory and practice, this is a noticeably organic and messy process. What is an ecological worldview? What, then, would be the practices that best map onto that view? It is in response to these questions that the author thinks integrated curricula begin to make sense. (Contains 3 notes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario. 1185 Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, M3C 3C6, Canada. e-mail: info@COEO.org; Web site: http://www.coeo.org/publication.htm
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10