Curriculum integration has been extensively discussed in the field of education, but little theoretical progress is made in the academia. This induces uncertainty and concern about the potential of curriculum integration for affecting schools positive...
Curriculum integration has been extensively discussed in the field of education, but little theoretical progress is made in the academia. This induces uncertainty and concern about the potential of curriculum integration for affecting schools positively. In that sense, the establishment of Korean Society for Curriculum Integration may be conducive to the theoretical and practical development of curriculum integration.
The major focus of this paper is devoted to an examination of issues to be considered in putting curriculum integration into effect. Four issues are addressed for the future research on curriculum integration: (1) the relations between the disciplines of knowledge and curriculum integration, (2) the practical models of integrating the content of school subjects, (3) the ways of expanding and deepening knowledge through curriculum integration beyond narrowly defined knowledge within a specific subject, (4) reorganizing and restructuring knowledge from separate subjects into curriculum organization considering its sequence and structure.
Finally, practical problems in implementing curriculum integration are posed such as: teacher recruitment and identity, discipline-based subject, subject statues and histories, assessment structures, and etc. This paper provides some ideas to resolve those problems.