Bringing It Together: Literature in Integrative Curriculum.

摘要: How many middle grade students say this about a content textbook? Few, if any, because textbooks are often too difficult for reading and learning. They tend to break knowledge into formal clusters of information that do not encour age reader interest, acquisition, or meaningful retention. In comparison, narra tive texts such as adolescent novels promote student interest increase Brozo Tomlinson (1986) contend narrative used skillfully make the curriculum more palatable, comprehensible, memo rable. Narrative also create rel evant, personal, individualized learn ing approach. Beane (1992) says given opportunity, they will construct their own meanings answer questions personal importance which overlap with concerns world at large. When school centers around young people real con cerns questions, an environment authentic holistic learning is established. unite adoles cents