Published date: Nov 16 2017

Journal Title: Arab Journal of Nutrition and Exercise

Issue title: AJNE: Vol 2, No 2 (2017)

Pages: 91-101

DOI: 10.18502/ajne.v2i2.1248

Despina Kaittanikaittanid@pascal.ac.cyDepartment of Life & Health Sciences, University of Nicosia, 46, Makedonitissas Avenue, Nicosia, Cyprus

Olga Kouli

Vassiliki Derri

Efthymios Kioumourtzoglou

The interdisciplinary approach has risen in the modern curricula as it is considered an important and challenging technique. Physical education is a prime content area for interdisciplinary learning. In order to integrate different subject areas into Physical Education lessons, the specialist needs to learn more about the academic curriculum. Integrating core subjects with physical activity can easily be done and can be very beneficial to student learners in all levels of Education. A great effort is done in addition to be integrated with other subjects. Over the last twenty years there have been frequent internal changes at international level, which also affect pre-school curricula. This trend has been intensified in recent years, with unprecedented mobility being observed, to the point of demanding a fundamental reform of the educational mission of the kindergarten.  An interdisciplinary approach has been at the core of attention in primary and secondary school education recently.

In this approach, teachers collaborate to invent and apply more effective means of teaching by associating the subjects and activities of a school subject in the curriculum with other subjects. The basic aim and purpose is to cultivate skills and values such as cooperatives, flexibility, adaptability, solidarity, but above all to provide basic knowledge, exploration, classification, selection, evaluation, resolution, and observation.

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