Master of Science / Food Science Institute / Justin Kastner / Student success in today’s modern, technological world depends on a thorough understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The US has made efforts to promote STEM education in recent years which has raised the international ranking of the United States students in STEM disciplines; however, more work is needed to make the US a leader in STEM education. Many methods have been used to help increase student interest and success in STEM disciplines. An integrated curriculum is one such method to heighten STEM education by using multiple subjects to support the content being taught. Food Science can be used as a tool in integrated curricula to enhance STEM education. The universality, cultural importance, and scientific diversity of food make it a perfect fit to incorporate content from all STEM disciplines. Furthermore, exposing students to the complexity of the food chain, food safety, and food science at a young age sets them up to be informed and educated consumers throughout their lives. The curriculum prototype developed for this report demonstrates the continuing promise of food science to enhance STEM education. This food-centric, project-based integrated curriculum encompasses all the standards required in fifth-grade science and math in the state of Tennessee with the added benefits of incorporating knowledge of food safety and the realities of the food chain. This curriculum is based on the essential question of how to use a community garden to bring nutrition to the people of Southern Asia. Through dissecting this problem, students learn about geographic diversity, plant growing conditions, food harvesting and preservation techniques, and cost implications to complex problems. Furthermore, the content required in 5th grade math and science in Tennessee is incorporated so that students learn the required content while solving a complex, real-world issue. The use of food science in integrated curricula provides students with hands-on experience in STEM subjects in a way that encourages independent learning, student engagement in the content, and real-world learning experiences. For students to have success in the modern world, they need a clear understanding of how the material presented in STEM courses relates to their lives. Food science can be used to enhance STEM education in a way that engages students and highlights important learning principles in science, technology, engineering, and math. Food science can elevate STEM education, increase student interest in STEM, and cultivate an engaged and knowledgeable public.

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Diploma thesis deals with an interdisciplinary based teaching approach in biology, specifically the thematic unit of mammals. The theoretical part examines the difference between inter- and subject-specific curriculum, as well as historical perspective of the issues, not least are given options of how integrated learning can occur. In the chapter "Options of integrated curriculum" a brief characterization of the project teaching is presented and compared with the integrated teaching. The practical part deals with an experimental teaching of two classes at the upper secondary school Postupická. The effectiveness of teaching was evaluated by questionnaires and a semi-structured interview.

As reformas curriculares realizadas pelas escolas de enfermagem nos cursos de graduação nos últimos anos desencadearam mudanças nos elementos constitutivos de um currículo. Novas práticas de ensinar, aprender e avaliar foram incorporadas e vivenciadas por alunos e professores. Esta pesquisa buscou desvelar e compreender o sentido da avaliação para alunos e professores que vivenciavam a experiência de um Currículo Integrado em enfermagem em uma universidade pública. É uma pesquisa qualitativa orientada pela fenomenologia existencial de Martin Heidegger. Para a coleta de dados foram realizadas entrevistas com onze professores e onze alunos do curso de graduação em enfermagem. A análise dos dados possibilitou a construção de três unificações ontológicas que configuram o sentido da avaliação para o ser-aluno e ser-professor que vivenciavam o mundo da educação em um Currículo Integrado, sob a visão de cada um: A ocupação no mundo circundante da avaliação, que trata do movimento do ser-aluno e serprofessor nos modos de ser próprio e impróprio e destaca a manualidade dos instrumentos que se encontram à mão nesse mundo; A apropriação da avaliação como preocupação, que envolve o cuidado com a avaliação e com as relações estabelecidas entre os seres que são-no-mundo-com-outros nesta prática; e A apropriação do ser-si-mesmo no mundo da avaliação, que abrange a busca do desvelar de si mesmo para a abertura de um fazer mais autêntico no mundo da educação. Esta pesquisa reafirma a complexidade da prática avaliativa nos processos educacionais e a necessidade de reflexão sobre a prática avaliativa concebida e desenvolvida nos currículos inovadores para que cada sujeito possa, com consciência, escolher os rumos dessa prática e atribuir um sentido à sua obra de educar e aprender no mundo da educação em enfermagem. / The curriculum reforms carried out by schools of nursing over the last few years have engendered fundamental changes to the components of their undergraduate courses. New practices of teaching, learning and evaluation have been incorporated and experienced by both students and professors. This study strove to reveal and understand the meaning of the evaluation for those students and professors who have been through the Integrated Curriculum in Nursing in a public university. It is a qualitative study informed by the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger. Interviews were carried out with eleven professors and eleven students in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. The data analysis allowed the construction of three ontological unifications, which configured the meaning of the evaluation for the student-being and the professor-being who experienced the world of education in an Integrated Curriculum, from the respective viewpoint of each one: Occupation in the surrounding world of the evaluation, which deals with the movement of the student-being and the professor-being in proper and improper ways of being, and highlights the manuality of the instruments found at hand in this world; appropriation of the evaluation as a concern, which refers to care correspondent to the evaluation and with the relations established between the beings-in-the-world-withothers in this procedure; and the appropriation of the being-itself in the evaluation world, which includes the beings quest to open itself to a more authentic doing in the educational world. This study reaffirms the complexity of evaluative practice in educational processes, and the need to reflect about the evaluative practice conceived and developed in innovative curriculums, so that each subject can consciously choose this procedures direction, and attribute meaning to the work of educating and learning in the world of nursing education.

O processo de uma implantação curricular tem mostrado o quanto uma transformação desta natureza envolve mudanças de paradigmas e de práticas profissionais e como estas mudanças interrelacionam-se à experiência pessoal de cada um e, ao mesmo tempo, às experiências de todos os participantes. Esta pesquisa buscou desvelar a experiência vivida por docentes e alunos que estavam habitando o mundo da educação em enfermagem no Currículo Integrado da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL). Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, orientada pela fenomenologia existencial-hermenêutica de Martin Heidegger. Para desenvolver este estudo foram realizadas entrevistas com dez docentes, que estavam atuando no Currículo Integrado e com dez alunos da primeira turma iniciada em 2000. A análise das entrevistas conduziu à construção de quatro estruturas, denominadas unificações ontológicas, que configuram o habitar do ser-docente e do ser-aluno no mundo da prática educativa em enfermagem, sob o olhar de cada um: A Abertura e Decisão para o Trabalho, que envolve o destinar-se e o distanciar-se da obra de ensinar e aprender; Habitando o Mundo Cotidiano da Prática Educativa de Enfermagem, que engloba o habitar o mundo na obscuridade e a busca da conformidade com este; Habitando as Relações, que abrange o mover-se nas relações, o olhar para a realidade e o apropriar-se do mundo vivido; e Serdocente/ Ser-aluno como Obra do Existir, que traz em si o sentido de serprofessor e de ser-aluno para os participantes desta pesquisa, bem como, o “Currículo Integrado" como lugar de referência para eles. Este estudo enfatiza que, para a construção de uma educação para o futuro, é necessário que se considere o homem enquanto ser-no-mundo-com-outros-homens, sem perder de vista a importância da reflexão, do cuidado, da atenção e da disponibilidade em aprender continuamente. Estas e outras reflexões do estudo possibilitam novos campos de visão e novos horizontes no ensinar e aprender em enfermagem. / The implementation process of a curriculum has demonstrated to which extent transformation of such nature involves paradigms and professional practices changes and to which extent such changes are intertwined with personal experiences and, at the same time, with the experiences of all participants. This research has sought to unveil the experience lived out by students and faculty members who were being in the nursing educational world in the Integrated Curriculum at Londrina State University (LSU). This qualitative research is oriented by the hermeneutic-existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger. The study was carried out through interviews with ten faculty members who experienced the Integrated Curriculum and ten students from the first class which initiated in 2000. Analysis of the interviews allowed for the construction of four structures named ontological unification which configure the experience of being as a faculty-being and as a student-being in the world of nursing educational practice, according to the look of each one: The Opening up and the Decision for working, which involves the committing and the breaking away from the work of teaching and learning. Being in the Quotidian World of the Educational Practice in Nursing, which encompasses being in the world in obscurity and the search for conformity with it. Being in the Relationships, which involves movement in the relationships; the look at reality and the appropriation of the experienced world; and Beingfaculty/ being-student as a Work of Existing, which brings in itself the meaning of being- a- teacher and of being- a- student for the participants in this research, as well as the “Integrated Curriculum" as a referential place for them. This study reinforces the idea that in order to construct an education for the future it is deemed necessary to emphasize man as being-in-the-world-withother- men, without loosing sight of the importance of reflection, care, attention, and willingness towards continuous learning. Such reflections issued forth from this study enlarge the scope of our vision, allowing for glimpses of new horizons in teaching and learning in nursing.

The purpose of the study was to determine if nutrition knowledge would increase, indicated by improvements in pretest and posttest scores, following implementation of a nutrition lesson plan. The subjects included 532 fourth through eighth grade students from Johnson County, a rural county in northeast Tennessee. The lesson plans and pretests and posttests were developed to be appropriate for each grade level, with increased complexity in higher grades. The principal investigator graded the pretests and posttests and analyzed the data using SPSS. The results showed a significant improvement from pretests to posttests for all grades given a p-value of <0.05.

Abstract available in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.

This study focused on the integration of book arts in a fifth grade classroom. As an art teacher turned regular education teacher I was interested in the effects of integrating art into the area of reading. The curriculum unit consists of two lessons in which the students were invited to use books arts as a means of expression and comprehension. The lessons correlated with the novel Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry. The results include my observations and reflections as a practicing elementary teacher.

This study investigated using literature as an alternative means to teach the art curriculum. Three widely used integrated curriculum models (Reading Improvement Through Art, Learning Through the Arts, and Champions of Change) were studied and analyzed in search of the best features for art-literature integration. A new curriculum is developed for two different grades using the Fulton County Elementary Art Education Curriculum standards as the foundation. This study used picture books as the catalyst to create an art-literature curriculum.

Taiwanese Languages Curriculum in a Third Grade Class of Elementary school Li-Shu Huang Abstract This is a case study on a grade three class in Kaohsiung municipal Da-Ai (A pseudonym) elementary school. The core issue was to teach Taiwanese proverbs with the integration of gender equity ideas, including topics of based on ¡§gender equity in a multi-culture society¡¨ and ¡§related issues in gender rights and interests¡¨ in the Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum Guidelines. The purposes of the study was to discuss the development process of gender concepts of grade three students in elementary school before and after taking the integrated course instruction, to know the academic achievements and the predicaments of students¡¦ learning. This research adopted qualitative research methods for collecting data by observations, interviews, worksheets and reflection checklists; to analyze data with frequency & T-test statistics, and then to make conclusions and suggestions wishing to be a reference in future integrated instruction. According to the above research purposes, the conclusions were as follows¡G A. Students¡¦ gender equity awareness¡G 1. Before instructions, students have their own gender stereotypes. 2. The students¡¦ stereotypes can be clarified and the viewpoints of gender equity can be built through instructions. 3. Through learning and sharing, the students can learn how to protect their body, deal with the crises and estblish the human relations. B. Integrated curriculum instruction¡G 1. The use of multiple instructions can stimulate reflections on gender concepts from both teachers and students. 2. The students admired the attempts of integrating gender equity ideas into Taiwanese language instruction. 3. The instruction can raise parents¡¦ attention toward children¡¦s gender attitude. 4. The integration of gender equity ideas into Taiwanese language curriculum ¡® instruction can have positive inpact on boys and girls¡¦ gender awareness, particularly in the case of girls. 5. Multiple instruction models of Taiwanese language curriculum can raise the interests on students¡¦ learning. 6. The integration of gender equity ideas into Taiwanese language curriculum ¡® instruction can help students use Taiwanese in their daily lives. Based on the findings, the researcher provided several suggestions as follows¡G A. We should implement gender equity education with the help of household education. B. We should create an envivonment with non-sexual discrimination and stereotype learning in order to support the teachers implementing multiple instructions. C. The teachers should develop reflecting abilities on gender concepts. D. The integration of gender equity ideas into Taiwanese should be diversified. E. The teacher self-made inventory on gender equity attitude should be further revised. F. The number of research class and samples should be increased.