Curriculum

humanist

autonomy and personal growth. Discover things on their own. Content is important.

a. Needs and concerns of individuals. Schools should be enjoyable places where people develop naturally according to their own innate natures. Goal is the growth of individuals, each in harmony with his own unique intellectual, social, emotional, and physical attributes.

social reconstructionist

societal needs are more important than individual needs. curriculum is the means of initiating social reform.

a. Conscious of the problems of our society and the injustices done to its members (racial, gender, social, economic inequalities). Purpose is to facilitate the construction of a new and more just society that offers maximum satisfaction to all of its members.
b. Our society is unhealthy, and so they assume that something can be done to keep society from destroying itself. A vision of society that is better, and action must be taken.

skills

a. The purpose of schooling is to efficiently meet the needs of society by training youth to function as future contributing members of society. Train youth in skills and procedures they will need in the workplace and at home to live productive lives an perpetuate the functioning of society.

technological

process and with the how rather than the what of education. Tech to communicate knowledge and facilitate learning. Focus on presentation of material to the learner

academic

allowing young individuals to acquire the tools to participate in the western culture, and giving them access to the greatest ideas and objects that humans have ever created classic disciplines should be taught in the curriculum since they enable individuals to learn concepts through which thought acquires precision, generality & power.

a. Over the centuries our culture has accumulated important knowledge that has been organized. The purpose is to help children learn that knowledge: content, frameworks, ways of thinking. Teachers are mini-scholars who have a deep understanding of their discipline and who can present it to children.

the essence of any subject taught in an educational setting

Guides the work of teachers and educators

Aims at nurturing the development and growth of learners.

Scope= breadth of the curriculum at a given time- the horizontal organization of content.

Continuity= ideas, themes and skills are dealt with more than once in school curricula. We cannot grasp an idea in one experience, several iterations must be presented before the notion becomes clear

Sequence= the recurrence and repetition of content, but also the depth. Each successive experience continues to build on preceding ones. Each one needs to be broader and deeper than the prior.

o Logical (chronological, part-to-whole, whole-to-part)

o Psychological= ways which students process information (familiar-to-unfamiliar, concrete-pictorial-abstract)

Social functions

for the purpose of the individual. needs and interests of the learners.

help get students ready for the work force

common competencies needed by all students

students needs or wants

teachers knowledge & expertise

government policies

determine what is taught depends on...

important content

important processes