Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School
Jonathan Savage, "Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School"
English | ISBN: 0415548594 | 2010 | 208 pages | PDF | 1315 KB
English | ISBN: 0415548594 | 2010 | 208 pages | PDF | 1315 KB
What is the role of the individual school 'subject' and 'subject teacher' within school? Is it to teach a set of core subject knowledge, skills and understanding in way that remains faithful to long-standing subject cultures and pedagogies? Or is there another way to consider how the curriculum, and the notion of individual subjects and teachers' pedagogy, could be constructed.
Working from the key principle that there is no curriculum development without teacher development, Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School argues for a new, skilful pedagogy which embeds an authentic, cross-curricular approach to teaching and learning in the work of the individual teacher. This approach respects and builds on individual subject cultures, embracing and exploring links between subject knowledge and subject pedagogies in an enriching way.
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