Group 3: Consider the proposition that the curriculum should be knowledge-based by Nicholas Wollaston https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl en-us 2019-01-31 12:30:43 UTC 2019-01-31 15:02:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Introduction utnvnwo https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232676 2019-01-31 12:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232676 Theme 1 utnvnwo https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232720 2019-01-31 12:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232720 Theme 2 utnvnwo https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232817 2019-01-31 12:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232817 Theme 3 utnvnwo https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232855 2019-01-31 12:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232855 Conclusion utnvnwo https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232877 2019-01-31 12:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326232877 vitkova_jana97 https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326292354 In this essay, I will be exploring why the curriculum should not be knowledge-based. The knowledge-based curriculum focuses on acquiring knowledge in different subjects. Michael Young believes that curriculum should be mainly knowledge-based, however after doing some further research I have decided to go against this idea. Some authors believe that curriculum should be rather skill based. This idea will be theoretically placed through some main arguments of ____ and _____. This essay will first look at the biases in the curriculum, secondly, we will discuss how Google can replace school knowledge and lastly we will have a look at the importance of skills. ]]> 2019-01-31 14:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326292354 Theme 1 : Bias lucile_bottein1 https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326292872 The curriculum’s integrity would perhaps be at stake were it to be based in knowledge. Indeed knowledge tends to be cultivated in bias, objective information being unattainable (Elliot, 1992). An obvious example of this is the teaching of history in schools. This is heavily biased, largely due to the fact that history is written by the “winners’ who have a tendency to self idealize themselves.  It would therefore be incoherent to build a learning structure on partially false bases. This being said, in the event that nothing is objective, one could argue that bias could intervene in the teaching of skills (favoring some above others). However this essay defends a curriculum that is based on one skill : to be able to navigate the world of knowledge. ]]> 2019-01-31 14:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326292872 Theme 2a Skills https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326294195 Skills may be a more solid base for curriculum since curriculum based on powerful knowledge may be unnecessary under certain contexts. According to Young and Muller (2016), common-sense knowledge, which is separated from the powerful knowledge is not part of the knowledge basis of the curriculum discussed in this essay. However, it should be indicated that common-sense knowledge can derive skills that are valuable both in daily context and on job market. Luttrell’s (2016) study on working-class mothers suggests that despite their relatively disengagement from schools, their common-sense knowledge and the skills derived from can satisfy their daily need. Thus, the value of curriculum based on the powerful knowledge can be doubted.]]> 2019-01-31 15:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326294195 Theme 2b Skills (counter-argument) chwkong519 https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326294552 However, it could be argued that skills and knowledge in education do not contradict with one another, but rather is the different phases that could be gained through a knowledge-based curriculum. As suggested by Young and Muller, skill is rather a “practical” form of knowledge, as opposed to an element that is alienated from the knowledge-acquiring process (Young and Muller, 2016, p.130). This would go against the notion that skill-based knowledge cannot be compatible with knowledge-based knowledge, as they both are the essential and achievable phases in education. ]]> 2019-01-31 15:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326294552 P: By virtue of its extensive coverage and its vast reach, the Internet has become a power tool for us to access a depository of knowledge, and thus undermines the claim that a knowledge-based curriculum should be enforced. E&E: With a click of a button, we can ...(need evidence)R: -Learning by google is less formal than a school-curriculum.-Without a knowledge-based curriculum which compels students to study, students may not have enough motivation https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326294822 2019-01-31 15:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/utnvnwo/m02wvka00itl/wish/326294822