Abstract
The Taiwan educational enterprise, official and academic, have been participating, planning and facilitating curriculum integration for more than five years. Based on the worldview transiting to systems paradigm, this paper aims to reconceptualize integrated curriculum and construct the system-fractal model for integrated curriculum development. The follows are successively explored or interpreted: (1) the main thoughts of systems paradigm; (2) the knowing based on the human-centered and systems-centered worldviews; (3) the re-knowing about the existence of “curriculum,” “integrated curriculum,” and “curriculum development” from the viewpoints of systems paradigm and information theory; (4) the curriculum development model of integrated curriculum constructed from the systems perspective; (5) the fractal characteristics of an integrated curriculum system, and the revivification and formation of the system-fractal model; (6) the principle for human beings to apply the system-fractal model into practice; and (7) the re-knowing on “searching another way out for knowing.”
| Keywords: | fractal theory; system-fractal model; systems paradigm; information theory; integrated curriculum |
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