Curriculum Design
Published on Nov 25, 2015
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Curriculum Design
Curriculum Foundations, Principles, and Issues
Myths about Education
- Education eliminates ignorance
- Education and curriculum should help manage all aspects of life on earth
- Human beings become better people with education
- Education makes people more successful!
It is possible that these myths exist because societies want to emphasize how education influences competition in the global economy.
Big Ideas in Education
- Socialization - conforming the youth to society
- Academia - teaching the most valuable knowledge
- Developmental rates - teaching students at their level
All of these ideas must be considered in education because they have a huge impact on the longevity of society.
Major Components of Design
- Objectives - What should be taught?
- Content - What should be included?
- Learning experiences - How will students learn?
- Evaluation - What were the results?
Sources of Curriculum Design
- Science - problem solving methods and scientific methods
- Society - social situations
- Moral doctrine - enduring beliefs and truths
- Knowledge - what is written
- Learner - interests and general knowledge
Design Dimension Considerations
- Scope - the amount/depth of knowledge
- Sequence - how curriculum goals build on each other
- Continuity - repetition/reinforcement of skills that have been taught
- Integration - interdisciplinary application
- Articulation - relating skills into other domains of the same subject area
- Balance - every component is equally developed and used
Curriculum Centered Approaches
- Subject Design - separate subjects
- Discipline Design - scholarly disciplines
- Broad-fields design - interdisciplinary subjects and disciplines
- Correlation design - Separate subjects, disciplines linked but identities maintained
- Process Design - Procedural knowledge; generic information and processing
Subject Design in the most relevant in the United States because it develops content and student interest, and it helps the process of specialization. However, it can be argued that the subject design uses too many ready-made resources such as textbooks. There is little room for differentiation, and it does not positively affect other needs like socialization.
All of these designs revolve around knowledge. They are heavily relevant to the essentialists, perennialists, and progressivists.
All of these designs revolve around knowledge. They are heavily relevant to the essentialists, perennialists, and progressivists.
Learner Centered Approaches
- Child-centered design - Child's interests/needs
- Experience-centered design - Child's experiences/interests
- Radical design - Child's experiences/interests
- Humanistic design - Experiences, interests, needs of person and group
These particular designs revolve around the students' individual experiences and life situations. They are heavily relevant in progressivism, reconstructionism, and existentialism.
Problem Solving Approaches
- Life-situations design - life (social) problems
- Reconstructionist design - Focus on society and its problems
Problem solving approaches are the most flexible of the approaches because they can be made to fit many different types of subjects. These revolve around reconstrutionism, and they are dependent upon societal issues and beliefs.
The Shadows Within Curriculum
- Operational Curriculum - information chosen by the teacher
- Hidden curriculum - ideas and beliefs taught based on the teacher's influence to instruction (can be intentional or unintentional)
- Null curriculum - information that is left out of the learning experience altogether
Resource
- Ornstein, A., & Hunkins, F. (2013). Curriculum Design. In Curriculum Foundations, Principles, and Issues (Sixth Edition ed., pp. 149-173). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education.
