The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between curriculum integration as a principle of contents organization and open education. There contain many serious problems in open education, but it also gave us an opportunity to reconsider...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between curriculum integration as a principle of contents organization and open education. There contain many serious problems in open education, but it also gave us an opportunity to reconsideration traditional education, that is, `subject-matter education`. In view of traditional education, the separation of subjects had an absolute meaning. But this separation has only a restricted meaning, The separation of `forms of knowledge` has a absolute meaning, but that of subjects does not. A subject may be composed of many forms of knowledge. Curriculum integration may be accepted as a methodology in order to teach well children forms of knowledge. The most important thing when we teach children something is not `subject`, but `form of knowledge`. If we don`t forget that what we teach children is forms of knowledge as many unique styles of thinking, we may be permitted to teach children these forms of knowledge with many kind of experience, objects, thesis, etc.