Cross-curricular Teaching Approaches Favouring the Active Learning of Mechatronics at Secondary Level

This paper describes the implementation and application of an integrated and cross-disciplinary curriculum, as integrant part of the school curriculum, its aim being the curricular decentralization and adapted curriculum to the specific needs of personal development, to the demands of workforce on the labour market and of each community. Mechatronics as engineering education, a philosophy of education, comes to complete this approach, leading to a change in the way of thinking and action to those who practise it – the teachers, and also to those who learn it – the students. Mechatronics is based on thinking, intuition, logic and precise action, which makes the solving several themes, in parallel, possible, develops creativity and leads to higher sense of responsibility. The reality creates problems and new and major difficulties in the design and implementation of training programs in schools, in the appropriate ways of teaching, of active teaching methods and strategies centred on problem solving, but the solution comes to life through the cross-curricular mechatronics, an engineering approach at the secondary level.