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This We Believe, the position paper of the Association for Middle Level Education, advocates for curriculum that is exploratory, relevant, integrative, and meaningfulfor young adolescents. Teachers can integrate curriculum across content areas by anchoring units of study in issues and themes that are determined along with students. Researchers have studied curriculum integration in different capacities, and further research can continue to explore the impact ofthis approach to curriculum.  \nCurriculum encompasses what happens in the school and includes academics as well as arts, physical education, extracurricular activities, and support services and programs (National Middle School Association, 2010) . There are many ways to implement curriculum at the middle level. One approach to curriculum emphasized by middle school models is curriculum integration (e.g., NMSA, 2010; Beane, 1993; Brown & Knowles, 2014) . This overview explores understandings of curriculum integration and relevant research on this topic.  \nCurriculum integration relates to This We Believe, the guiding document of the Association for Middle Level Education (formerly the National Middle School Association), in its call fora middle school curriculum that is challenging, exploratory, integrative, and relevant (NMSA, 2010) . This We Believe also encourages teachers and students to engage in active, purposeful learning. Many descriptions and studies have shown that curriculum integration can provide an engaging, purposeful, relevant, and meaningful approach to teaching and learning (Beane, 1993, 1997; Jacobs, 1989) .  \nWhat is Curriculum Integration?  \nThe meaning of curriculum integration varies from source to source, and schools and teachers integrate curriculum in different ways. James Beane, a prominent advocate for curriculum integration (1993, 1997, 2005), understands curriculum integration to involve meaningful learning organized around issues important to teachers and students; in this way, curriculum integration supports democracy (Beane, 2005) . Beane outlined four aspects of integration that emphasize issues and align with democratic principles: integration of experiences, social integration, integration of knowledge, and integration as a curriculum design. Integration of  \nexperiences means that past and present experiences are integrated to facilitate new learning. Social integration occurs when students from diverse cultural perspectives enjoy common learning experiences. Integration of knowledge happens when contentarea concepts are integrated through a focus on issues. Integration as a design emphasizes project-based learning and other applications of knowledge (Beane, 1993) . Beane (1997) anchored his concept of curriculum integration in his principles for middle schools, namely that curriculum should be general, and helpful for young adolescents exploring self and social meanings.  \nCurriculum integration “engages students as active learners who make the most of the decisions about what they study”(Brown, 2016, p. 123) . Designed to be responsive to students’ concerns, curriculum integration allows for a model in which “students become teachers and teachers become learners” (Pate, 2013, p. 174) . Springer (2006), a leading practitioner, further noted that “curriculum integration takes as its ultimate aim helping students live better lives now as well as in the future, not merely gathering more information for possible later use”(p. 14) . Similarly, Dowden (2007), writing about curriculum integration in Australian middle schools, stated that its main purpose is to “resituate subject matter into relevant and meaningful contexts” (p.52) . Topics, themes, and issues that are meaningful for students can provide a starti","cbCaileNFuIl9heT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaileNFuIl9heT","pdf",236761,"English","# Curriculum Integration: An Overview\n## What is Curriculum Integration?\n## Examples of Curriculum Integration","[{\"question\":\"What does curriculum integration emphasize in middle level education?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes exploratory, relevant, integrative, and meaningful learning for young adolescents organized around important issues and themes.\"},{\"question\":\"How does James Beane describe curriculum integration?\",\"answer\":\"Beane frames integration through four aspects: integration of experiences, social integration, integration of knowledge, and integration as curriculum design.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do different sources use different terms related to curriculum integration?\",\"answer\":\"There is little consensus on definitions; researchers and practitioners often use alternative terminology such as interdisciplinary, content integration, core, and multidisciplinary curricula to describe their approaches.\"}]","Curriculum Integration: An Overview - Curriculum Integration: An Overview | PDF",1792089529,13]