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Lara Rodrigues; Alejandra Meneses; Maximiliano Montenegro; Cristián Cortés – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Astronomy has great potential to attract children toward science and improve their scientific literacy. However, it has a relatively small presence within the school curricula worldwide. In Chile, home of the world's largest telescopes, astronomy is even more relevant in science education, but the presence of astronomical content within the…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Curriculum, Science Education, Foreign Countries
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Solares-Rojas, Armando; Arellano-Aguilar, Omar; García González, Moisés Martín; López-Vargas, María del Rocío; Coles, Alf; Méndez Serrano, Alejandra – Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
We report our progress on the "River Memorial Museum" didactic intervention project developed with schools, in the basin of the Atoyac River in Mexico, that are significantly impacted by the pollution produced through industrialisation. The teachers of the elementary schools in these communities, environmental scientists, educators, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Rural Areas, Museums, Intervention
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Kirsten, Nils – Education Inquiry, 2019
This study examined how teachers relate literacy teaching to their ordinary subject teaching in professional development settings. The study is conducted within the large Swedish professional development program the Literacy Boost (in Swedish "Läslyftet"), which can be viewed as an example of an international focus on reading ability…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
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Pavlou, Victoria; Athansiou, Georgina – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2014
In a world that is becoming increasingly more visual, there is a greater need to educate children to better understand images. A school subject that deals directly with image understanding is visual arts. This article discusses an interdisciplinary approach to promote art understanding, within a multimodal environment that combines art and music.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Arts, Art Education, Teaching Methods
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Nikolakaki, Maria; Dossa, Katerina; Moraiti, Tzeni – Curriculum Journal, 2012
Through analysis of exercises offered in mathematics textbooks, this article investigates the discursive practice of cross-curricularity and group work teaching that was advocated in the 2007 reform of mathematics education in Greek primary schools. The conclusion of the research is that the organisation of school knowledge is vertical, and strong…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Classification
Lenoir, Yves; Hasni, Abelkrim – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article presents a portrait of interdisciplinarity in the Quebec school system. Following a contextual overview of this system, including its sociohistorical evolution and current organization in order to define the problem of interdisciplinarity, a second section, beginning with a clarification of terms related to interdisciplinarity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Implementation, Barriers
Gallová, Mária, Ed.; Guncaga, Ján, Ed.; Chanasová, Zuzana, Ed.; Chovancová, Michaela Moldová, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this scientific monograph is to show new and creative approaches to different school subjects in primary and secondary level. Methodology: Interdisciplinary and international comparative approaches were used. Now according to the 7th Framework Program, the preferred form of Science Education (www.scientix.eu) is preferred…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines, Comparative Analysis