IDS561 Integrated Curriculum II: Practical and Political Aspects of Implementation

This second course in a two-term sequence focuses on the enduring concept of integrating learning in the K-12 schools. In contrast to the traditional arrangement of schooling into separate subjects and time periods of the day, there is an emerging paradigm of schooling which creates a more holistic, integrated set of learning experiences for students. This second course in the sequence focuses on the practical features observation, critical appraisal, design, implementation, and evaluation of integrated curriculum experiments in real classrooms. The course takes the integrated paradigm as its own, and providing a demonstration of such holistic learning by intertwining the study of above elements, which might ordinarily be taught separately. 3 semester hours