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

• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Disciplina: 373; 373.1102
• Soggetto topico: High school teaching - United States; Education, Secondary - Curricula - United States; Interdisciplinary approach in education - United States
• Altri autori: KaufmanDouglas <1963-> MossDavid M OsbornTerry A. <1966->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the boundaries
• ISBN: 1-282-41193-4; 9786612411939; 0-313-08412-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778549903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II