Discussion 1.1. Understanding Curriculum Summary of Chapters 1 and 3 by Debbie Blanton https://padlet.com/dcerrilloblanton/9xakxty3j09q Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues by Allan C. Ornstein and Francis P. Hunkins en-us 2018-07-04 03:41:18 UTC 2018-07-04 05:54:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png Curriculum Approaches dcerrilloblanton https://padlet.com/dcerrilloblanton/9xakxty3j09q/wish/269334823 Behavioral Approach
  • Relies on technical and scientific principles
  • Based on a plan called a blueprint or document

Managerial Approach
  • Views school as a social system where students, teachers, and leaders interact
  • Interest is in innovation and how the school system can facilitate change

Systems Approach
  • Curriculum is organized into a system
  • Parts of the school and school district are viewed based on interrelatedness in order to make changes

Academic Approach
  • Attempts to analyze and synthesize major positions, trends, and ideas dealing with curriculum
  • This approach is based with the works of John Dewey, Henry Morrison and Boyd Bode

Humanistic Approach
  • Based upon progressive philosophy and child-centered ideals
  • Curriculum activities promote problem solving and active student participation

Postmodern Approach
  • Focused on education’s larger ideological issues
  • Investigate society’s social, economic, and political institutions


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  • A plan for achieving goals
  • Dealing with the learners experience
  • A field of study
  • Deals with subject matter


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  •     How curriculum is planned,  
     implemented, and evaluated
  •     Step-by-step and logical
Curriculum Design
  •     Refers to how curriculum is 
     conceptualized and arranged  
  •     Should provide a basic frame 
     of reference for what the 
     curriculum will look like after 
     curriculum development


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Town Schools
  •  Controlled by public elementary school 
  • One room classrooms with students from ages 5-14
Parochial and Private Schools
  • In middle colonies
  • Many religious and ethnic groups established schools for their children
Latin Grammar Schools
  • Secondary level, upper class boys
  • Established in Boston
  • Catered to those who planned to enter the professions (medical, law, teaching, and the ministry
Academics
  • Established 1751 based on Benjamin Franklin's ideas
  • Offered practical curriculum for those not going to college
Colleges
  • Most students who graduated from Latin school went to Harvard
  • College was based on the Puritan view that ministers needed to be soundly educated

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Dr. Benjamin Rush ( 1745-1813) 
  • Free elementary schools in every township consisting of 100 or more families
  • Curriculum emphasized reading, writing, and arithmetic 
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
  • Advocated a plan that provided educational opportunities for everyone
  • Public taxes should finance schools
Noah Webster (1758-1843)
  • Set out to reshape U.S. English (“American English”)
  • Wrote spelling and reading books 
  • Wrote The American Dictionary

William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873)
  • Readers emphasised patriotism, heroism, hard work, diligence and virtuous living
  • His five readers were the most popular textbooks in the UnIted States 
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  • Monitorial Schools
  • Common Schools
  • Elementary Schools
  • Secondary Schools
  • Academics
  • High Schools
]]> 2018-07-04 04:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dcerrilloblanton/9xakxty3j09q/wish/269337490 19th Century European Educators dcerrilloblanton https://padlet.com/dcerrilloblanton/9xakxty3j09q/wish/269343438 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827)
 General and Special Methods
  • His innovation was that children learn through the senses
  • Developed rote learning and linking curriculum to children’s experiences 

Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)
The Kindergarten Movement
  • Focused on three and four year olds
  • Schooling should focus on play and individual and group interests

Johann Herbart (1776-1841)
Moral and Intellectual Development
  • His contribution to moral development in education
  • Creation of methodology of instruction designed to establish structured teaching

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Utilitarian and Scientific Education
  • Advocated a scientific and practical curriculum
  • Believed that traditional schools were impractical and ornamental
]]> 2018-07-04 05:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dcerrilloblanton/9xakxty3j09q/wish/269343438 The Transitional Period 1893-1918 dcerrilloblanton https://padlet.com/dcerrilloblanton/9xakxty3j09q/wish/269343520 Vocational Education
  • Testing of children’s aptitudes as a basis for pursuing choice of vocations in higher education
  • Education related to agriculture , home economics , and the trades

Flexner: A Modern Curriculum
  • Abraham Flexner argued in 1917 that Latin should not be taught in school
  • Wanted educators to change the curriculum

Dewey
Pragmatic and Scientific Principles of Education
  • Argued that subjects can not be placed in value order
  • Believed that any subject can promote a child’s development

Charles Judd (1873-1946)
  • Believed that the laws of nature should educate the young
  • Emphasized science and math problems applicable to everyday life
]]> 2018-07-04 05:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dcerrilloblanton/9xakxty3j09q/wish/269343520 The Birth of the Field of Curriculum 1918-1949 dcerrilloblanton https://padlet.com/dcerrilloblanton/9xakxty3j09q/wish/269343564 Bobbitt and Charters: Behaviorism and Scientific Principles
Franklin Bobbitt (1876-1956) 
  • Curriculum as a science
  • Cost-effective education
  • Prepare students for adult life

W. W. Charters (1875-1952)
  • Bridging theory and practice in curriculum
  • Emphasis on student needs

Kilpatrick: The Progressive Influence
William Kilpatrick (1871-1965)
  • School as a  community 
  • Teacher and student planning
  • Emphasis on pedagogy or instructional activities
  • Child centered curriculum

Rugg and Caswell: The Development Period
Harold Rugg (1886-1960)
  • Education in content with society
  • Whole child
  • Teacher plans curriculum in advance

Hollis Caswell (1901-1989)
  • Foundations of education (history, philosophy, and culture) influence curriculum development
  • Curriculum as a set of experiences
  • Curriculum organized around social functions

Tyler: Basic Principles
Ralph Tyler (1902-1994)
  • Curriculum as a science and extension of school philosophy
  • Curriculum as a rational process
  • Student needs and interest

Goodald: School Reform
John Goodlad ( 1920-2014)
  • Curriculum organized around needs of society
  • Reduce student conformity in classroom

Freire: From “Banking Concept” of Education to Problem Posing
Paulo Freire ( 1921-1997)
  • Education as a means of shaping the person and society through critical reflection and “conscientization”
  • Teachers use questioning and problem-posing approach to raise student’s consciousness

Pinar: Reconceptualizing Curriculum Theory
William Pinar ( 1947-)
  • Broaden the conception of curriculum to enrich the practice
  • Curriculum as a conversation that involves multiple disciplines


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