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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454811303321

Titolo

Beyond the boundaries [[electronic resource] ] : a transdisciplinary approach to learning and teaching / / edited by Douglas Kaufman, David M. Moss, and Terry A. Osborn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2003

ISBN

1-282-41193-4

9786612411939

0-313-08412-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KaufmanDouglas <1963->

MossDavid M

OsbornTerry A. <1966->

Disciplina

373

373.1102

Soggetti

High school teaching - United States

Education, Secondary - Curricula - United States

Interdisciplinary approach in education - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Going beyond the Boundaries; 2 Educational Foundations: Building a Case for Communication; 3 Not-So-Foreign Languages: The Critical Inquiry Approach to Moving beyond Disciplines; 4 The End of Science...and Where Other Disciplines Begin: Exploring the Nature of Science; 5 Rethinking Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation; 6 Don't Mourn;  Organize! Transdisciplinary Social Studies Education; 7 Reading the World and Writing to Learn: Lessons from Writers about Creating Transdisciplinary Inquiry

8 Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Education of ELLs9 Murals as Interdisciplinary Teaching; 10 Learning to Let Go: Student Participation in the Development of an Integrated English Curriculum; 11 Where Do We Go When We Step beyond the Boundaries?; Index; About the Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

Many contemporary secondary education standards call for teachers to reach across traditional disciplinary lines and create curricula and instructional techniques that are interdisciplinary in nature (as examples, for mathematics see Principles and Standards for School Mathematics; for science see National Science Education Standards; for foreign language see Standards for Foreign Language Learning; Preparing fro the 21st Century). Yet, due to the highly entrenched and fragmented administrative structure of teacher education fields, including tertiary preparation and state certification, most