Wright Timeline of Major Curriculum Theorists by taylor wright

Impact

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Emerson’s impact on curriculum comes mainly in the form of his views on the relationship between individuals and their place in society. Emerson was also the first person currently known to associate the term progressive with education.

Essay "Experience"

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Using Emerson’s essay “Experience” (1983) originally published in (1841) as a point of comparison. He states “Every thing looks permanent until its secret is known.” (Emerson, R. 1841).

https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-second-series/experience/

Essay "Circles"

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In this essay he states “Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself. There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us.” (Emerson, R. 1841).

https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-first-series/circles/

Impact

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Dewey’s impact on curriculum comes from his ideas as a major contributor to progressivist educator values. Dewey had three major solutions he used when criticizing curriculum developed without the students’ best interest in mind. The first solution is that students’ minds should be engaged and through psychology the curriculum. Which can also be read as guiding students through the logic of the subject matter. The second solution is to help students understand the underlying concepts of a subject without overly focusing on engagement to the detriment of students. The third solution is to have a curriculum that is student sensitive but not student centered in regards to pedagogy.

Main Idea

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A quote from Dewey that support his claims states “According to Dewey, if the interaction between curriculum, student, and teacher is dynamic rather than prescribed or preset, all will be transformed (cf. Rosenblatt, 1978).”

Impact

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Addam’s impact on curriculum comes from her work at Hull House in Chicago, Illinois. During her time at Hull House, she wrote about her observations on how she would improve education. She was an advocate for moving away from strict formal education to encourage students to learn inside and outside of school. She also encourages educators to remember that the theories we use in education should be readily adapted to fit the needs of our students.

Time at Hull House

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This can be seen from this quote from Twenty Years at Hull House “taught us not to hold to pre-conceived ideas of what the neighborhood ought to have, but to keep ourselves in readiness to modify and adapt our undertakings as we dis covered those things which the neighborhood was ready to accept” (Addams, J. 1990, p. 79).

Impact

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His impact in this area is centered around dual identity and liberal learning. These ideas can be interpreted as the sharing and fusion of ideas, and the ability education provides to all in order to understand and process these complex ideas fully. His writings also encourage the reader to put forth the effort to understand others. He also mentions that the uncovering of unsettling truths about the systems that people live under will cause discomfort.

Writings from Du Bois

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“The rich and bitter depth of their experience,” Du Bois writes, “the unknown treasures of their inner life, the strange rendings of nature they have seen, may give the world new points of view and make their loving, living, and doing precious to all human hearts” (p. 438). Simultaneously, Du Bois (1987) embeds this appeal in a claim that “men know so little of men” (p. 584). (Du Bois, W. E. B. (1987) (Connelly, F. M., He, M. F., & Phillion, J. 2007. p. 446).

Impact

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Tyler’s impact on curriculum stems from his experiences as a behavioral scientist. Tyler authored a foundational text for curriculum development called Tyler’s (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction. This can be seen with his Tyler Rationale (1949). These four steps are a guideline but not hard rules in order to facilitate adaptation.

Tyler Rationale (1949)

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"1. What educational purposes should the school seek to attain?

2. What educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes?

3. How can these educational experiences be effectively organized?

4. How can we determine whether these purposes are being attained? (p. 1)." (Tyler, R. 1949).

Curriculum Development

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Tyler believes the people designing the curriculum can pull from the problems their communities are currently dealing with in order to train the skills students will need in the future. This can be seen from this quote “I would suggest that you collect sample information of several sorts. On the one hand it might be well to draw upon your memory, your experience in a given area of life such as in your civic life, to jot down the activities that you engage in as a citizen. Also list the problems that you have encountered as a citizen. Imagine this information as being illustrative of what might be obtained from a considerable sample of adults in your community. In the light of such information, can you suggest possible objectives which are implied by these data?” (Tyler, R. 1949. p. 22).

This is reminiscent of the sabretooth curriculum story with lessons in school being deliberately inspired by the activities and challenges of the adult members of the community.

Impact

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Taba’s contribution to curriculum is in the form of her (1962) theory of Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice.

Theory of Curriculum Development

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Taba lists seven steps in this theory

Step 1: Diagnosis of needs.

Step 2: Formulation of objectives.

Step 3: Selection of content.

Step 4: Organization of content.

Step 5: Selection of learning experiences.

Step 6: Organization of learning experiences. Step 7: Determination of what to evaluate and of the ways and means of doing it. (Taba, H. 1962. p. 12).

Main Idea

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Quote from Taba, “An emphasis on a single basis, such as the content, the needs of society, or the needs of the learner, have [ sic ] produced an unnecessary versus thinking with its unfortunate juxtaposition of considerations that should be combined into one comprehensive curriculum theory” (Taba, H. 1962. p. 3).

Impact

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Schwab’s impact on curriculum comes from his contributions to applying psychology to education. Which means connecting the students with knowledge by deliberation to create curriculum that meets the needs of the students. In this context the goal of Schwab’s ideas are to connect the creators of curriculum to deliberation to better fulfil their evolving end goal.

Main Idea

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“Schwab wanted to get curriculum specialists away from the theoretic activity of describing curriculum development. Instead, he urged them to get involved in the daily actions of public school leaders.” (Connelly, F. M., He, M. F., & Phillion, J. 2007. p. 487).

Quote

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“Educators, including curriculum specialists, were massively unprepared to cope with the problem of integrated education . . . The problem posed by the current drives toward ethnicity in education finds curriculum specialists even more massively oblivious and unprepared. And until recently I found myself alone with respect to the curriculum problems immanent in the phenomena of student protest and student revolt.” (Schwab, 1970, p. 19).

Impact

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Alder’s impact comes from his work on the Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (1982). He was an educator, philosopher, and author who was also the leading member of the Paideia Group. Which consisted of 22 educators and academics. His educational philosophy consisted of the following ideas there are no unteachable children, a one-track system, equal quality of education, equal opportunity to education, and to create lifelong learners. He was also a proponent of democratic socialism.

12 principles

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Linked from the National Paideia Center.

Paideia as a term means signifying the general learning that should be the possession of all human beings.

Three core pillars of Paideia

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There are three types of teaching associated with Paideia which are didactic instruction leading to factual recall; intellectual coaching leading to skill development; and seminar dialogue leading to conceptual understanding.

Quote

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“You may be skeptical about the efficacy of your involvement in political affairs. But you cannot love your country and at the same time be indifferent about the future of its free institutions.” (Adler, M. J. 1982).

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Elementary class 1945

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Typing class 1940

Images taken from Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice.

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Desegregated classroom 1954

Image of Hull House

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From Music Politics.

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Education was for the young. | Heritage Images/GettyImages

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Students and their teacher outside their one-room schoolhouse. | Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

References for Timeline

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