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Title: Making Sense of Big Questions That Require Multiple Subjects: Preliminary Theorisation of an Integrative Philosophy of Knowledge and Empirical Indications of a Lack of Subject Connection within School Curricula
Language: English
Authors: Robert A. Bowie (ORCID 0000-0001-8067-3480), Rosanne Aantjes (ORCID 0000-0002-1666-7665), Mary Woolley (ORCID 0000-0001-7192-388X), Sabina Hulbert (ORCID 0000-0002-3247-7271), Lynn Revell (ORCID 0000-0002-3133-3276), Caroline Thomas (ORCID 0000-0003-2917-6627), John-Paul Riordan (ORCID 0000-0001-9016-5578)
Source: Journal of Religious Education. 2024 72(3):277-294.
Availability: Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Secondary Education
Elementary Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Science Instruction, Religious Education, Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Curriculum, Ethics, Teacher Attitudes, Scientific and Technical Information, Interdisciplinary Approach, World Problems, Educational Philosophy
Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
DOI: 10.1007/s40839-024-00237-0
ISSN: 1442-018X
2199-4625
Abstract: This paper provides theorisation about a novel concept for education: an integrative philosophy of knowledge (IPK). This is proposed for school curricula to relate multiple subjects to big questions of personal and existential importance. Critical contemporary issues such as climate change education require multiple subject contributions but there is little clarity in the English education guidance on this drawing together, beyond the encouragement to do so in priority areas. Leading British thinkers have engaged the idea of the unity of knowledge, not without difficulty and criticism. The paper identifies reasons for a practical approach to consilience in school curricula. In addition to preliminary theorisation, in methodological 'harmony', this paper adds tentative empirical findings from a related research project that provides quantitative indications that such multi-subject connection is likely not happening. The findings are not definitive, but the perceptions of three groups of beginning and experienced teachers (secondary Religious Education (RE), secondary science and primary teachers) indicate that school curricula do not reflect an integrative approach to climate change education, and sex and relationships education, despite policy priority. A significant national survey could not detect many signs of connection. The paper speculates that RE could have a key epistemic role for the curriculum as a whole in this regard.
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