Looking back, looking forward: Re-searching the conditions for curriculum integration in the middle years of schooling |
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| Authors: | John Wallace Rachel Sheffield Leonie Rénnie and Grady Venville |
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| Abstract: | In Australia, and internationally, integration is a widely promoted middle school curriculum reform strategy. Integration
is claimed to engage students by providing opportunities to work on a few cross-disciplinary objectives, to apply knowledge
across the subject boundaries and to work on tasks with meaning and relevance. While these curriculum goals enjoy a certain
popularity among middle school reformers and curriculum integration adherents, in practice, the prevalence of integration
is patchy and provisional. In this article, we (re) examine two of our studies of middle school integration over the past
decade to explore the reasons for this apparent disparity between the rhetoric and the reality. In our re-search for integration,
we look back at our data to identify enabling and inhibiting conditions for curriculum reform and develop a list of key program
characteristics. Finally, we look forward, drawing on the notion of institutional resilience to speculate on the reasons why
some middle school programs seem to flourish while others wither. |
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