INTEGRATED CURRICULA MY LIVING THEORY

INTEGRATED CURRICULA: MY LIVING THEORY OF A HOLISTIC EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE   :

I N T E G R A T E D CURRICULA: MY LIVING THEORY OF A HOLISTIC EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE By Eak Prasad Duwadi , PhD 2011

Introduction :

Introduction I N T E G R A T E D CURRICULA stand for incorporated programs for children which are different than traditional subject based syllabi I think this brings holistic teaching leaning environment

Research Questions :

Research Questions Why different subject curricula need to be integrated into one? When does better teaching learning happen successfully? What do students and parents want—marks or life-long skills? How can we make students good human beings?

Significance :

Significance This research will focus on various views expressed by the key stakeholders—the students, the parents, and schools regarding the factual needs of the integration of different subjects to make learning more effectively

Limitation:

Limitation I do not claim that it is only the best way to abolish prevalent ills in education system

My Conceptual Framework:

My Conceptual Framework

Sample lesson Plan:

Sample lesson Plan

Literature Review:

Literature Review Primarily, planning curriculum enables teachers to identify gaps, redundancies, and misalignments in the curriculum and instructional program and to foster dialogue among teachers about their work (Jacobs, 2004, p. vi) “The basis for enjoyable lessons as long as teaching and learning activities are chosen to engage the students" (Taber, 2007) While integrating different curricula, there will be transformation of companionship between the staffers There will be also fun and coordination

Literature Review (Contd….):

Literature Review (Contd….) A project-based and integrated curriculum for life that is a dramatic departure from the factory-model education of the past, aimed at engaging students in addressing real world problems, issues important to humanity, and questions that matter will cord with the 21 st century education It is the departure from textbook-driven, teacher-centered, paper and pencil schooling It means a new way of understanding, a new definition of the educated person or a good citizen

Literature Review (Contd….):

Literature Review (Contd….) In course of teaching pre-primary, primary, lower-secondary, secondary and undergraduate students at different institutions, I saw some outcomes from students and colleagues as well though I could not implement my plans fully because of various constraints in each institution

Methodology :

Methodology I will use quantitative method in this research An important part of a convincing proposal is an explicit and effective description of research plan

Research Plan:

Research Plan Quantitative research has some typical strategies; out of those I will use the empirical Empirical research typically involves studying a sample drawn from some larger population I will, therefore, define the population from which the sample will be drawn and describe the sampling strategy

Data Collection:

Data Collection I will deal with both data collection instruments and data collection procedures Most quantitative social science data are produced by questionnaires, I will also use questionnaires among these tools

Data Analysis :

Data Analysis As my research will be quantitative, I will be using hypothetical test technique Technical assistance may be required if statistical methodological expertise is lacking For that MS Word and SPRS software are essential I will practice different steps and phases going through the stages by establishing the categorization, coding, abstraction, comparison, integration, and finally interpretations on writing up the data according to phases and themes

Ethical Issues :

Ethical Issues The principal issues here are consent, access and participants’ protection, and together they cover the range of different ethical issues which might arise in a piece of social research

Resources Required :

Resources Required Recording device, computer, printer and cartridges, etc.

REFERENCES :

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Any Question?:

Any Question?