- Title
- Integrating curriculum: a case study of teaching global education
- Creator
- Ferguson-Patrick, Kate; Reynolds, Ruth; MacQueen, Suzanne
- Relation
- European Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 41, Issue 2, p. 187-201
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2018.1426565
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Despite widespread support for integrated approaches to teaching, classroom practice reveals a lack of implementation. This paper explores challenges and opportunities in teaching an integrated curriculum, and connects this with the contemporary notion of a twenty-first century curriculum and pedagogy. A case study of Global Education (GE) is used to delineate the complexity of issues when teachers attempt to move beyond disciplinary-based teaching approaches. We examine curriculum documents, advice for teachers on curriculum implementation, preservice teachers' experiences in schools during Professional Experiences and national guidelines for Professional Experience. Through these data, a broad picture emerges of influences on integrating curricula in classrooms. Opportunities to integrate curriculum incorporating twenty-first century pedagogies were limited by pressures on teachers with preservice teachers rarely exposed to authentic integration. Teachers' professional standing requires clear guidelines, which allow them to pursue important twenty-first century content and skills, for young citizens and this must begin in preservice education.
- Subject
- integrating curriculum; global education; teacher education curriculum; professional experience; twenty-first century pedagogies; SDG 4; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445351
- Identifier
- uon:42569
- Identifier
- ISSN:0261-9768
- Language
- eng
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