Instructional materials which respect the holistic, systemically integrated, mutually supportive nature of knowledge, the need for a “master knowledge-organizing system,” and the student’s search for understanding of self, others, and the wider world.  a complete general education course of study appropriate for use by adolescents and older students, for educators, home-schoolers, tutors, and for all others interested in the comprehensive study of reality. Can be used as a "stand alone" program, or as a framework to organize and integrate the traditional separate-subject curriculum. Can be implemented in a Home School Curriculum, Classroom Curriculum, ranging from one student to multiple students.



 

 

Published Articles by the Authors


Repackaging Reality

   Education Week, Nov. 20, 1991


The Here and Now As Curriculum

   Transecence, Vol. XIX, 1


Single Discipline Schooling

   Phi Delta Kappan, Feb., 1993


A Supradisciplinary Curriculum

   Chapter 3, 1995 ASCD Yearbook


Interdisciplinary Isn't the Answer

   NASSP Bulletin, March 1995


Megafailure

   NASSP Bulletin, November 1995


Beyond Interdisciplinary

   NASSP Bulletin, May 1996


Educating For Life As It Is Lived

   The Educational Forum, Spring, 1996


Which History?
 
Basic Education

   National School Network Newsletter, January 97, Volume 3, Number 1


Review: Interdisciplinarity; Essays From the Literature

   The Educational Forum, Volume 63, Number 3, Spring 1999.


Newspaper articles from The Orlando Sentinel and Florida Today

 


 

Phi Delta Kappan, the professional journal for education, addresses issues of policy and practice for educators at all levels. Advocating research-based school reform, the Kappan provides a forum for debate on controversial subjects. Published since 1915, the journal appears monthly September through June.


The Standards Juggernaut #648

   Phi Delta Kappan, May 2000

 

276 Thinking Big: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Everything,

 

 

 

 


 

Postings at www.iteachnet.com

- Students' brains: Another road-building project (05/31/01)

- What Do Students Need? A System For Organizing Knowledge (01/22/01)

- Nothing Is More Powerful Than Assumptions (12/26/00)

 


 

A Seamless Curriculum*

 *A single, systemically integrated whole, every part of which relates logically to every other part

 

An Excerpt from the Introduction . . .

 

"Our schools are stuck on a performance plateau. Even the best of them fail to hook solidly into students' natural curiosity, natural need to know, natural desire to make more sense of the world and their place in it.

"Take away the report cards, certificates, diplomas, attendance laws, parental pressures, and community expectations, and the schools would fall apart.
 "Obviously, when the drive to learn is intrinsic, but attempts to educate the young must lean so heavily on extrinsic motivators, something is seriously wrong."
 

Read "A Seamless Curriculum" - Continued > > >

 


 

As referenced by other authors and institutions:

 

Springhurst School for gifted students 

http://www.springhurst.org/curricul1.htm

 

Creating Integrated Curriculum: Proven Ways To Increase Student Learning

AUTHOR: Drake, Susan M.
 

Connecticut State Department of Education

INTEGRATED CURRICULUM

http://www.ctserc.org/library/actualbibs/IntCurriculum.pdf

 

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL Briefing Paper)

Integrated Curriculum: A Reflection of Life Itself

AUTHOR: Simanu-Klutz, Luafata

http://www.prel.org/products/Products/Integrat-curri.pdf