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Rafi Santo; Anne Drew Hu; David Phelps; Secil Caskurlu; Kyle Dunbar; Aman Yadav – Computer Science Education, 2025
Background: While advocates for integrating Computational Thinking (CT) into existing K12 classrooms have acknowledged and aimed to address various barriers to implementation, we contend that a more foundational issue -- tensions between the epistemology of computing and those of existing disciplines -- has largely been overlooked. Studies of…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Elementary Secondary Education, Art Education
Scholkmann, Antonia; Stegeager, Nikolaj; Miller, Richard K. – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This paper provides a conceptual elaboration of the role of Problem-based Learning (PBL) in the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and an analysis of the challenges this brings about. SSH-STEM integration is an endeavor that is timely, relevant, and urgent given the…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Studies, Humanities Instruction
Schey, Ryan – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2022
Purpose: Current legislative, policy and cultural efforts to censor and illegalize classroom discussions and curricular representations of LGBTQ+ people reflect longstanding challenges in English education. In an effort to explore what curricular inclusion can (not) accomplish--especially what and how current struggles over inclusion, censorship,…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Social Bias, Social Justice, Inclusion
Gutierrez, Evan C. – Harvard Education Press, 2021
"A New Canon" is the first book to provide a framework for designing and utilizing rigorous, standards-aligned curriculum to address the lack of representation for marginalized communities in formal education. Grounded in literature around cultural relevance and responsive teaching practice, the book provides step-by-step guidance for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Humanities Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education, Curriculum Development
Fraser, Benjamin – Hispania, 2017
Luso-Hispanic studies has responded ambivalently to the commonplace that the globe has passed the tipping point of urbanization. While disciplinary traditionalism poses challenges to scholars linking artistic production to urban contexts, interdisciplinary work on the city has nonetheless found terrain in which to thrive. This brief article thus…
Descriptors: Urbanization, Interdisciplinary Approach, Humanities, Textbooks
Chandler-Olcott, Kelly; Hinchman, Kathleen – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2015
This article reports on a middle school literacy intervention implemented during a yearlong teacher-researcher collaboration. The purpose of this collaboration was to combine and adjust commonly recommended pedagogical approaches to address the literacy needs of a heterogeneous group of seventh graders attending an urban school. University…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Literacy Education, Middle School Teachers, Educational Research
Kirchner, Jana; Inman, Tracy F. – Social Education, 2012
Today's schools and teachers are challenged with meeting the demands of specific content standards, high stakes assessment, and developing students from diverse backgrounds to be capable of competing in a global market. These twenty-first century students must not only possess critical thinking skills and the ability to process information, but…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Humanities, Global Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach
Press, E. C. – Elements: Translating Theory Into Practice, 1978
Emphasizes the commonality of purpose between the social studies and the humanities. Suggests ways they can be integrated and traits that would be developed from their study. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Humanities, Humanities Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Persuasive Discourse

Gibson, Susan; Tranter, Joanne Neal – Canadian Social Studies, 1998
Describes a humanities approach to teaching and strategies for implementing a humanities program in the social studies. Discusses implementation strategies in general and provides an example of a grade 7 humanities unit. Concludes by suggesting means for generating support for a humanities approach within the school and community. (DSK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Humanities
Espinosa, Alma – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
Certain aspects of European art music occupy a middle ground between the two cultures described by C. P. Snow almost fifty years ago. Analogies exist not only between mathematics and the ratios underlying musical notation and intervals (i.e., the distance between pitches) but also between computer science and counterpoint (simultaneous melodies):…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Computer Science, Humanities, Social Studies
Moore, James R. – Social Studies, 2008
Population trends--birth and death rates, immigration patterns, sex ratios, and life expectancies--are one of the most important issues facing the international community. These trends' relationship to the world economy, the environment, and developing countries' ability to meet the needs of growing populations is a topic appropriate for the…
Descriptors: Population Education, Global Education, Population Trends, Numbers
Shuman, R. Baird – 1978
The industrial model has penetrated every avenue of American existence; even education is compartmentalized in the United States for the purposes of management and immediate efficiency. One initial step that has been taken toward creative and constructive change in education is the institution of cross-disciplinary humanities courses. English…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, English Instruction, Humanities
Fuchs, Lucy – 2003
The humanities, an area of study left out of the elementary curriculum, is essential as society becomes more global in nature. Because of the time restrictions in elementary teaching schedules, the humanities must be incorporated into the school program, not as an extra class, but as an enrichment of what is already taught. In this book, emphasis…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Childrens Literature, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
McLaughlin, Frank – Educators Guide to Media & Methods, 1967
Schools must refuse to contribute to this age of "information overload" and, through an interdisciplinary approach, assist students to become receptive to humane feelings and to understand the complexities of a culture. To these ends, educators must "re-program" the entire educational system by relinquishing their attachment to their own…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Design, English Instruction, Group Instruction
Russell, Frances – Maine English Bulletin, 1970
An interdisciplinary English-Social Studies-art-music seminar taught by several staff members is proposed in an article in the Maine English Bulletin. Required courses such as English and Social Studies represent the core of the program which is enriched by the introduction of art and music. The curriculum is constructed around broad questions…
Descriptors: Art, Bulletins, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design