Integrated Studies
Duration:
1 Teaching Period
Unit Code:
EDU40007
Contact Hours:
Recommended 10 hours of study per week
About this unit
In this unit students will explore and evaluate learning experiences designed and implemented through the use of integrated studies and interdisciplinary learning design. Pre-service teachers will investigate curriculum and forms of pedagogy to gain an understanding of methods and practices of teaching and learning through integration and interdisciplinary practice. This unit draws on past, current and future practice of subject integration.
Content
- What is an integrated curriculum?
- Why use an integrated curriculum approach?
- How to plan and implement an integrated approach
- Past approaches to curriculum integration
- Theories of integrated curriculum
- Integrated curriculum and the learning environment
- General Capabilities and Cross-Curricula approaches
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Teamwork roles and processes
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
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