This paper used a desk review approach to deal with the shift towards and emphasis given to integration of curriculum content. The purpose of the paper is to bring out the meaning, rationale and arguments about the concept of curriculum integration. The discourse about curriculum integration is important to the policy makers, all those involved and working as curriculum developers, and for the curriculum implementers.

In 1999 an integrated curriculum was developed for Jamaican primary schools. This study clarified the conception of integration within the curriculum (grades 1-3). Five aspects of integration were addressed: the problems within Jamaican primary education that integration was to ameliorate, the kinds of integration recommended, suggestions regarding how and when integration was to be enacted, the rationale/aim for integration, and issues raised concerning integration. Utilizing a descriptive/interpretative methodology, the investigation analysed five documents related to the development and implementation of the curriculum. Curriculum integration was promoted as a means to increase numeracy and literacy achievement, to strengthen relevance (personal and social) of what is learned, and to encourage effective pedagogy. The curriculum incorporated three forms of integration congruent with these curriculum goals; however, the curriculum's potential to achieve these goals was muted du...

The bureaucratic approach to curriculum development in Kenyan primary and secondary school curricula need to be reconsidered if student and teacher engagement in Learning and Teaching are to improve. This piece promotes the humanistic approach that balances the top down and bottoms up approaches and engages more stakeholders in the curriculum development process than just the technocrats. The propositions presented in this short draft only act to play a part in the conversation about the role of teachers in their teaching. Should the most important stakeholders (teachers and students) remain barely as consumers in the curriculum processes or should the process be rethought to find an agreeable means of involving them from the beginning of curriculum conceptualization to its realization and ultimate evaluation?

This Ministry report is on the basics of an integrated curriculum. The rationale for such a curriculum is explored. A process for creating an integrated curriculum is offered. and how to actually go through the process of doing it.

The use of integration as a pedagogical tool in the teaching of English language and literature subjects is a priority in Kenya. Despite the inception of the integrated English curriculum two decades ago, not all English language teachers use it as conceived by the curriculum developer, Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). The Purpose of this study was to explore pedagogical experiences of teachers in implementing the integrated English language curriculum in Kenya, Kisumu County. Guided by Fuller’s Concern Based Adoption Model (CBAM) theoretical framework, this study utilized Concurrent Triangulation design under a mixed methods approach to establish the level of coverage on components of both language and literature and to determine the integration methods used by teachers of both language and literature in implementing the integrated curriculum. Saturated sampling design was used to select 110 subject teachers, 52 heads of departments and 52 principals currently impl...