Systematic Thinking on Designing Interdisciplinary Thematic Learning Activities:Dilemmas and Strategies
Interdisciplinary thematic learning is a new form of learning aimed at the development of literacy.With the new curriculum standards clearly proposing the concept and requirements for designing interdisciplinary thematic learning activities,related research and practice have become the forefront topics and hot areas of basic education curriculum reform.The academic community has realized the erroneous tendencies of formalism and utilitarianism,and problems such as"plate style teaching","shallow level teaching"and"vague and irregular performance evaluation"have systematic characteristics.This study focuses on the characterization of the dilemma and adopts a programmatic grounded research method to trace the dilemma category of interdisciplinary thematic learning from existing literature and expert interview data.Research has found that there are three levels of difficulties in the design of interdisciplinary thematic learning activities:ideological concepts,institutional systems,and social conditions.These are reflected in excessive reliance on fixed scripts,content isolation,lack of integration,and superficial integration.The content lacks coherence,is cross disciplinary and inconsistent,has limited learning goals,separates character and ability development,is closed in traditional teaching and research organizations,has weak openness and integration,relies on traditional educational methods,lacks interdisciplinary cognition,and is constrained by school environmental systems.There are six problems of inertia and fixation,all of which point to the systemic problem of"separation of learning and application",manifested as solidification and superficiality.The fundamental problem also points to a lack of in-depth understanding of the essence of interdisciplinary learning.Based on this,it is proposed to break through the knowledge and logic boundaries with the new form of discipline integration of"big span"+"small span",and break through the solidification with the modularized element configuration of"setting the two ends and releasing the middle".Procedures,to"eight trigrams"instead of"fruit platter"field elements intrinsically related to overcome the tendency to superficial optimization strategy.
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