The ideology of a curriculum
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The document discusses four main ideologies of curriculum: 1. The Scholar Academic Ideology - Believes the purpose of education is to teach students accumulated knowledge from academic disciplines. The aim is to introduce students to these disciplines. 2. The Social Efficiency Ideology - Believes the purpose of schooling is to efficiently train students to meet the needs of society and function as contributing members. The first step is determining society's needs. 3. The Learner-Centered Ideology - Focuses on considering students' interests, readiness, experiences and learning styles in curriculum development. 4. The Social Reconstruction Ideology - Aims to use education to help students question and improve society and
The ideology of a curriculum
- 1. The Ideology of a Curriculum Kathleen Paras Discussant
- 2. IDEOLOGY is a collection of ideas, a comprehensive vision, a way of looking things, or a worldview that embodies the way a person or a group of people believes the world should be organized and function. It is “a certain ethical set of ideas, principles, doctrines, myths and symbols of a social movement, institution, class, or large group that explains how society should work, and offer some political and cultural blueprint for certain social order”
- 3. CURRICULUM IDEOLOGIES are the curriculum visions, philosophies, doctrines, opinions, conceptual frameworks, and belief systems of educators
- 4. CURRICULUM IDEOLOGIES Refer to people’s endeavors while they engage in curriculum activity or think about curriculum issues. Do not refer to all belief systems of people, or even to all belief systems related to curriculum.
- 5. FOUR CURRICULUM IDEOLOGIES The Scholar Academic Ideology The Social Efficiency Ideology The LearnerCentered Ideology The Social Reconstruction Ideology
- 6. The Scholar Academic Ideology Scholar academics believe that over the centuries our culture has accumulated important knowledge that has been organized into academic disciplines found in universities.
- 7. The Scholar Academic Ideology The purpose of education is to help children learn the accumulated knowledge of our culture: that of the academic disciplines.
- 8. The Scholar Academic Ideology Scholar academics assume that the academic disciplines, the world of intellect, and the world of knowledge are loosely equivalent.
- 9. The Scholar Academic Ideology An academic discipline is viewed as a hierarchical community of people in search of truth within one part of the universe of knowledge.
- 10. The Scholar Academic Ideology The aim of education for Scholar Academics is the extension of their disciplines by introducing young people to them.
- 11. The Social Efficiency Ideology Social efficiency advocates believe that the purpose of schooling is to efficiently meet the needs of the society by training youth to function as future mature contributing members of the society.
- 12. The Social Efficiency Ideology Social efficiency educator’s first job is to determine the needs of society.The things that will fulfill these needs are called the terminal objectives of the curriculum.
- 13. The Social Efficiency Ideology Social efficiency ideologists believe the most efficient achievement of a curriculum’s terminal objectives results from applying the routines of scientific procedure to curriculum making.
- 14. The Social Efficiency Ideology Three things that play an important role in the Social Efficiency ideology are the concept of learning (or change in human behavior), the creation and sequencing of learning experiences (the causes, actions, and stimuli which lead to the desired effects, reactions and responses) and accountability to the client for whom educators work.