Full Description
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 practitioners and teacher educators approach said endeavors from a subject-specific orientation. This contributed volume includes perpsectives from major areas in secondary teacher education, including Science, Mathematics, Social Studies. Art, Literacy, English/Language Arts, Foreign Language, Bilingual Education, foundations, and Literacy. The book includes both theoretical and practical aspects as to how teachers are being prepared to create and implement transdisciplinary units. The authors explore how these approaches can be imiproved such that teachers attempt to apply transdisciplinary epistemological and pedagogical structures, which emphasize inquiry from multiple perspectives, to avail the full power of such learning experiences to the students.
Contents
Going Beyond the Boundaries by David M. Moss, Douglas Kaufman, and Terry A. Osborn
Educational Foundations: Building a Case for Communication by Arthur Costigan
Not so Foreign Languages: The Critical Inquiry Approach to Moving Beyond Disciplines by Terry A. Osborn
The End of Science...and Where Other Disciplines Begin: Exploring the Nature of Science by David M. Moss
Rethinking Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation by Alice F. Artzt and Frances R. Curcio with Alan Sultan and Tara Wachter
Don't Mourn, Organize! Transdisciplinary Social Studies Education by David Gerwin
Reading the World and Writing to Learn: Lessons from Writers about Creating Transdisciplinary Inquiry by Douglas Kaufman
Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Education of ELLs by Mileidis Gort
Murals as Interdisciplinary Teaching by Rikki Asher
Learning to Let Go: Student Participation in the Development of an Integrated English Curriculum by Wendy Glenn
Where Do We Go When We Step Beyond the Boundaries? by Douglas Kaufman, Terry A. Osborn, and David M. Moss
