Interdisciplinarno poučavanje tema zaštite okoliša – tematski i kurikularni pristup
Interdisciplinary Teaching of Environmental Protection Themes – Thematic and Curricular Aproach

Summary/Abstract: The interdisciplinary approach is best suited to real life learning. This approach best connects different fields, makes possible interdisciplinary understanding, intergration of knowledge and thinking, creation of new models, systems and structures, development of higher order skills, and additionaly motivates students to study. Many authors support an integrated (holistic) approach, which allows for the exploration of different topics without the constraints imposed by traditional subject barrieres. Fundamental problem in education system is reflected in outdated didactic-methodical approach with expressed differentiation of school subjects, in the poorly connected formal and informal education, so that the dominance of traditional approach is evident, which makes impossible the flexibility in using more innovative strategies, methods and forms of work in the teaching process. Considering the changes that are inevitable and in line with the needs that accompany the development of education in all spheres, the emphasis is placed upon the ecological education that would be implemented through the environment components by the interdisciplinary approach, mutual (team) work of all the educational workers on the integration of the environmental protection into educational programs of primary and secondary schools. Indisputable is also the effect of the traditional approach as the foundation for the interdisciplinary one, with the positive experiences of the current teaching practice and the mutual interweaving in certain aspects of the educational process. There is also a clear need for finding the more innovative didactic-methodical approaches, of syntagms of active learning and teaching that implies the change of the participants’ roles in the teaching process, with the aim of upgrading the quality of education.

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