| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 174 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Going beyond the Boundaries; 2 Educational Foundations: Building a Case for Communication; 3 Not-So-Foreign Languages: The Critical Inquiry Approach to Moving beyond Disciplines; 4 The End of Science ... and Where Other Disciplines Begin: Exploring the Nature of Science; 5 Rethinking Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation; 6 Don't Mourn; Organize! Transdisciplinary Social Studies Education; 7 Reading the World and Writing to Learn: Lessons from Writers about Creating Transdisciplinary Inquiry |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
High school teaching -- United States
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Education, Secondary -- Curricula -- United States.
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Interdisciplinary approach in education -- United States
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EDUCATION -- Secondary.
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Education, Secondary -- Curricula
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High school teaching
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Interdisciplinary approach in education
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaufman, Douglas, 1963-
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Moss, David M.
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Osborn, Terry A., 1966-
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| LC no. |
2003045766 |
| ISBN |
0313084122 |
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9780313084126 |
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