Geography, history and other business subjects: colleagues make the bridge

Initiated by the reformed curriculum of Catholic Education Flanders (henceforth abbreviated as KathOndVla), in which schools can choose the subject 'Nature, space and technology' -which includes an integration of natural scientific, geographic and technical content and skills-, it was investigated in which way an integrated curriculum for science education can take shape. An extensive international literature study, classroom visits and interviews with teachers resulted in a vision and inspiration guide on cross-curricular teaching in science education. This guide offers teacher teams and school boards a handhold and supports them in their quest for innovation using a cross-curricular curriculum. In order to show teachers even more concretely how such a curriculum can take shape, a number of didactic approaches with accompanying teaching materials were also designed for the new subject 'Nature, space and technology' at KathOndVla.

Within a second line of research of this PWO, it was investigated how the new citizenship competences can be developed. For each citizenship goal in the history subject at KathOndVla, a lesson sheet was drawn up, based on the necessary literature.