Integrative learning



Integrative learning is a learning theory describing a movement toward integrated lessons helping students make connections across curricula. This higher education concept is distinct from the elementary and high school "integrated curriculum" movement.

The "term comes in many varieties: connecting skills and knowledge from multiple sources and experiences; applying skills and practices in various settings; utilyzing diverse and even contradictory points of view; and, understanding issues and positions contextually."

"...making connections within a major, between fields, between curriculum, cocurriculum, or between academic knowledge and practice."

From Huber, M. T., Hutchings, P., & Gale, R. (2005). Integrative Learning for Liberal Education. peerReview, Summer/Fall.

External sites

 * Association for Integrative Studies
 * Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences
 * Integrative Learning: Opportunities to Connect collaborative project at the American Association of Colleges and Universities
 * Hybridvigor.net