Curriculum integration has long appealed as a way to both unite knowledge and meet the educational needs of young people. Yet contemporary educators have tended to dismiss this as a romantic but unworkable idea. This book examines curriculum integration with respect to the educational needs of young adolescents in the New Zealand context. It draws from American and British understandings about integration developed throughout the twentieth century. The central research explained in this work - relevant to any Western education system - is a theoretical analysis of the...