Integrativni pristup sadržajima Digitalnog sveta i Sveta oko nas

Abstract

The contemporary approach to teaching aims to help children develop a complete picture of the world from an early age, to which the subjects The World Around Us and The Digital World also contribute by holistically viewing natural, social, and digital phenomena. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether, and to what extent, common content that can be integratively related is represented in the curricula and textbooks for the first and second grade of The Digital World and The World Around Us. The curriculum content analysis included the common content identification for achieving cross-curricular integration, while the textbook analysis for The Digital World (N = 8) involved determining the number and type of integrative examples within the topic Algorithmic thinking. The identified related content suggests the need for integrating these two subjects so as to better combine knowledge into a meaningful whole, though some disagreements with regard to the timing of the introduction of certain concepts were observed in the curricula.