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The article focuses on the tools and methods of cross-disciplinary integration as a part of the professional education of primary schools teachers. According to the Federal Standards of High Education, primary school teachers must be able to ensure students’ progress in nine or ten subjects, which requires expertise in several non-closely connected subject areas. Currently each of these areas is studied separately, while reasonable integration would allow for more systematic knowledge. University lecturers and professors normally prefer to merge the subject areas with the methods of teaching these subjects, but rarely use the existing tools for exploring connections between science and humanities. Cross-disciplinary tasks are the most effective tool of such exploration. Hence, in this article the authors provide the defi nition of the cross-disciplinary tasks, its goals and purposes, methodological requirements for such tasks, and analyse their own experience of implementation such tasks in a university setting. The article provides examples of cross-disciplinary tasks the authors used in their Russian language and Mathematics courses, taught in 2018-2019 academic year in Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogic University. The tasks are applicable while studying the following topics – Theory of Sets, Theory of Combinations, Mathematical Logics, Algebra, as well as Phonetics, Phonology and Calligraphy. The authors found that the implementation of the tasks increased students’ motivation and helped establish connection between the two disciplines, while also enhancing the understanding of both subject areas. Based in these results, authors propose using such tasks as a form of the fi nal examination for the academic module «Subject Areas and Methods of Teaching» at higher education institutions offering degrees in Primary Education degrees. |
