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Integration occurs in the learner, not in the curriculum plan---Taba, Goodlad, et. al.
Taba: we need to develop common knowledge by dealing with ideas that transcend and connect fields of study. We need to move to broader organization of knowledge.
Eisner: when considering curriculum integration, we arrange curricula phenomena such that the individual’s intellects and hearts, and perhaps their souls are addressed.
The increased attention to integration results is part from the ongoing discussion of postmodernism, constructionism, and poststructualism---Knowledge is not separated form its reality, people cannot really disconnect themselves from their inquiry and the
