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European Conference on Curriculum Studies, Braga, Portugal, 18 - 19 October 2013, pp.854-861, (Full Text)
In the light of today’s progress in education, alternative approaches are researched and used in order to enable learners to gain higher skills during the process. In recent years there has been a trend towards interdisciplinary studies that emphasize unity and integration, instead of traditional discipline based on instruction that implies fragmentation. In Turkey’s setting, it can be said that the main philosophy of the instruction programs is to take learners’ interest and needs into consideration. It is also stressed that a traditonal structure based on only a single discipline cannot help reach the required objectives. An interdisciplinary study in Turkey context is intended to help learners use knowledge efficently and integrate what has been learned with real life events.
The aim of this study is to introduce and discuss an example of practice which was prepared to current issues and based on interdisicplianry approach. The concept ‘consumption’ was studied in this research , and an instructional design focused this concept was prepared. In the instructional design, consumption sources, sustainable consumption, consumer rights and behaviours and features of conscious consumption subjects were handled. It was developed for the seventh grade and encompassed 14 lesson hours. In addition to these features the gains, skills and values of the developed design were stated and information about the content, interdisciplinary connections, learning-teaching and assessment processes of the developed design were presented. This study based on interdisciplinary approach, is thought to make contributitons to the acquistion of interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, development of higher thinking skills and meaningful learning and to the education of students who can transfer the knowledge before to real life situations.