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Meriläinen, Merja; Piispanen, Maarika – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
In the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Compulsory Education (2014), the conception of language is based on the communal and functional linguistics model of language. From the perspectives of teaching and learning, this requires that learning contexts and pedagogies enable learning in such learning environments, roles, and processes where the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authentic Learning, Learning Trajectories, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Syed, Ghazal Kazim – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2013
In this article, the author argues that it is more appropriate to teach citizenship through other subjects than to limit it to one statutory subject. The author's argument is based on three important issues. The first issue is that citizenship, being an aim of education rather than a means, deserves to be part of the whole curriculum. This is to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Citizenship Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Thematic Approach
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Bersh, Luz Carime – Social Studies, 2013
This article offers a contextual analysis of contemporary immigration issues impacting the institutions in the United States, in particular the school. It discusses the importance of addressing this theme in the classroom and presents its curricular value in the elementary and middle school social studies and interdisciplinary curricula. Using a…
Descriptors: Immigration, Teaching Methods, Social Studies, Elementary School Students
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Olsen, Deborah; Bekken, Barbara M.; McConnell, Kathryne Drezek; Walter, Charles T. – Journal of General Education, 2011
Baxter Magolda's Learning Partnerships model was used to create a program designed to foster student epistemological development. To assess its effectiveness, the Measure of Epistemological Reflection was administered to the experimental cohort and a comparable group in the traditional general education program. Results indicate that the model…
Descriptors: General Education, Epistemology, Program Effectiveness, Models
Dieronitou, Irene – Online Submission, 2009
This article examines the impact of the Cross thematic approach on Greek and Greek Cypriot secondary education. The major argument put forward is that the Cross thematic approach (CTA) affects not only pedagogy and educational knowledge but teacher professionalism as well. In justifying this argument, the Cross thematic approach is considered as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Thematic Approach, Educational Change
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Barab, Sasha A.; Landa, Anita – Educational Leadership, 1997
A curricular anchor is a complex problem that students acknowledge as worth solving and that validates learning a set of relevant skills and concepts. To motivate students, anchors must capture the imagination, be perceived as important by learners, legitimize the disciplinary content they integrate, and accommodate a variety of learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving
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Tardy, Christine M. – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2006
With genre now viewed as a fundamental element of writing, both second language writing and mainstream composition studies have seen an increased focus on the question of how writers learn genres. The purpose of this paper is to review key findings from 60 empirical studies that have investigated this question. To this point, research has…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Comparative Analysis, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
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Rugen, Leah; Hartl, Scott – Educational Leadership, 1994
Students in expeditionary learning schools spend most of their time engaged in sustained, in-depth studies of a single theme or topic. The experiences, lasting four to nine weeks, include strong intellectual, service, and physical dimensions. Intellectually rigorous projects and purposeful fieldwork provide a vision and an assessment strategy that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Field Instruction, Guidelines, Integrated Curriculum
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Cook, Gillian E.; Martinello, Marian L. – Middle School Journal, 1994
Theme studies are worth doing if they support the study of universal ideas, broaden students' understanding of their world and human experience, are interdisciplinary, reflect students' genuine interests, and lead to student inquiry. Themes can be developed from students' common interests, adolescent literature, textbook topics, current events,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades
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Friedman, Madeleine – Middle School Journal, 1994
Teacher-directed content, immovable subject divisions, and rigid scope and sequences perpetuate mismatch between middle school curricula and young adolescents' needs. Teachers at one Florida middle school are experimenting with Coalition of Essential Schools processes such as backward curriculum design and units of joy. Curriculum becomes an open…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades
Lawton, Ed – Schools in the Middle, 1994
Briefly reviews the development of core curricula and interdisciplinary teaming in junior high/middle schools from the mid-1950s to the present. A recent study of 15,000 Maine eighth graders shows that schools using the middle-school, interdisciplinary approach outscored their junior high school peers enrolled in single-discipline subjects by 58…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Integrated Curriculum
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Schroth, Gwen; And Others – Middle School Journal, 1994
As middle school educators refine interdisciplinary teaming, numerous challenges have emerged, notably the development of interdisciplinary units and personality-compatible teams, design of instruction to challenge honor students while motivating low achievers, and integration of subject areas into thematic topics. As the New Kids pilot project…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
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Darlington, Sonja; Dake, Dennis – Middle School Journal, 1994
Describes a thematic, interdisciplinary, middle-school curriculum that integrates visual and language arts. Curriculum embodies three principles: (1) visual and verbal responses depend on meaningful interaction among the artist (writer), the art object (text), the viewer (reader), and the environment (context); (2) visual and verbal thinking are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades
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Drake, Susan M. – Educational Leadership, 1991
Representing English, history, geography, science, graphic arts, intermediate special education, physical and health education, and environmental studies, six Ontario (Canada) teachers cooperating on an integrated curriculum project found that their "separate" subject areas came together naturally in a theme approach to teaching. Success…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Moss, Sherrie; Fuller, Millie – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
Two teacher participants in a Georgia multi-age project offer principles for effective middle-school practice. Teachers should include kinesthetic activities and the arts; believe in every student's learning potential; make learning fun and engaging; use interdisciplinary and thematic approaches; assess their progress; and create learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle Schools, Mixed Age Grouping
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