INTEGRATED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN POLAND - SOURCES AND SUMMARIES AFTER 25 YEARS OF IMPLEMENTING INTEGRATED EDUCATION: PRESENT AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

Integration in the education process means merging, creating a whole from parts, combining and juxtaposing as well as binding various elements of knowledge, skills and behaviors. It can be seen in various aspects of school work, including teaching and learning without division into school subjects. The subject of this article is the integrated education system in primary education, teaching and learning of younger students. The essence of education in an integrated system is to show children a consolidated picture of the world, not divided, but, as it happens in life, binding various elements of life. An important issue is what and how to teach, what to make an integrating being, this unifying episode. Organizing knowledge in an integrated approach is done by defining the issues to be learned by children, and then selecting appropriate facts from various scientific disciplines, allowing for a multilateral analysis of these issues, multidirectional activity of younger students. Reference was made to the history of pedagogical thought in order to notice the characteristic assumptions of integration and methods of implementation.