A look at curriculum integration from the bridge

This article looks at the popularity of curriculum integration in the 1990s in the United States. It offers evidence from national curriculum standards documents, books in print, journal articles, national coalitions and organizations, and curriculum in use to suggest that curriculum integration is experiencing a peak in interest, much like the early era of progressive education, and the open education movement of the 1960s. It further traces the intellectual roots of the current movement and looks at the conceptual differences in the two factions in the curriculum integration movement: the correlated/fused and the core. Different assumptions about the primary source of the curriculum lie at the heart of the split. An extensive reference section offers a sample of the writings on curriculum integration in the 1990s.