Abstract: Integrated learning is a learning approach reform oriented towards the cultivation of core literacy. It is an important pivot for furthering the reform of China’s new curriculum. Integrated learning adapts to the era features of core literacy, the mechanisms of literacy learning and the requirements for students’ lifelong development. It is thus a learning orientation that dialectically unifies subject logic and psychological logic, learning space and learning practice. As a form of learning practice under uncertain domains with authentic interactions, study trip is highly consistent with the integrated learning concepts. With metaphors to express the ideal state of integrated learning with study trip as the carrier, its form deconstruction, or students’ continuous learning experiences achieve open migration through the “channel” of trip experiences, active construction of interdisciplinary knowledge through the “creation” of trip activities, cooperative collaboration of dialogic practice through the “dance” of trip interaction, and evocation of significance through expanded learning domains in the “space” of trip expansions. With study trip as the carrier, integrated learning guided by core literacy can achieve authentic occurrence through constructing systematic study trip experience events, regulating serialized study trip activity tasks, building three-dimensional study trip interaction networks, and exploring vitalized study trip expanded domains.

Key words: core literacy, integrated learning, study trip, learning metaphors