Curriculum Approaches

Front 1

A holistic position and a metaorientation are both reflections of what?

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Curriculum approach

Front 2

In which two perspectives can a curriculum approach be viewed?

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Technical/scientific and non-technical/non-scientific

Front 3

Name the five curriculum approaches.

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Behavorial, managerial, systems, academic, and humanistic.

Front 4

Which curriculum approaches are non-technical/non-scientifical?

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Academic and humanistic.

Front 5

Which curriculum approach is rooted in the University of Chicago?

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Behavorial

Front 6

What did Randall Callahan later brand the Behavorial Curriculum Approach?

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"Cult of Efficiency"

Front 7

What is the main goal of the Behavorial Approach?

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Reduce teaching and learning to precise behavors with cooresponding measurable activities.

Front 8

Which approach considers the school as a social system?

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Managerial

Front 9

In which approach is the curriculum specialist/supervisor considered a facilitator?

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Managerial

Front 10

Managerial plans involving curriculum and instruction centered around what 5 types of innovation?

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Individualization, departmentalization, nongrading, classroom grouping and homeroom and work study activities.

Front 11

Which curriculum approach was dominant during the 1950s and 1960s?

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Managerial

Front 12

Which curriculum approach was less concerned with subject matter and content?

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Managerial

Front 13

Which curriculum approach is sometimes referred to as curriculum engineering?

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Systems

Front 14

What is the PPBS and who developed it?

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The PPBS stands for planning, programming and budgeting system which is a Systems approach to curriculum. It was developed by the Rand Corporation.

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What is the TQM?

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TQM is a systems approach to curriculum called "total quality management".

Front 16

What four components is profound knowledge based on?

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Systematic thinking, theory of variation, theory of knowledge, and knowledge of psychology.

Front 17

Which thoery recognizes that curriculum activity entails common and special causes and effects?

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Theory of Variation

Front 18

Which theory believes that the knowledge possessed by people within the system is essential to curricular success?

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Theory of Knowledge

Front 19

Which curriculum approach believes individuals must understand, respect and care for one another in order to be successful?

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Systems Approach

Front 20

Which approach views curriculum broadly and is concerned with curriculum issues relevant to the entire school or school system rather than with particular subjects and grades?

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Systems Approach

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Which curriculum approach type coincides with traditional theories and models of educaton and reflect established, formal methods of schooling?

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Technical/scientifical

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Which curriculum approach type evolved as avant-garde and experimental philosophies and politics?

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Non-technical/non-scientifical

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Which curriculum approach is often referred to as the traditional, encyclopedic, synoptic, or knowledge-oriented approach?

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Academic Approach

Front 24

Which approach became popular in the 1930s only to fade in popularity in the 1960s?

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Academic Approach

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Why did the Academic Approach fade in popularity in the 1950s?

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The interest in curriculum shifted its focus onto the structure of disciplines and qualitative methods.

Front 26

Everyone involved in the _____ approach to curriculum is in the "business" of words and ideas.

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Academic Approach

Front 27

Which curriculum approach feels that curricularists who try to be scientifical and rational miss the personal and socail aspects of curriculum and instruction?

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Humanistic Approach

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Which approach contends scientific curriculum approaches ignore subject matter's artisitc, physical and cultural aspects?

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Humanistic Approach

Front 29

Which approach gained momentum in the 1940s and 1950s with the growth of child psychology and humanistic psychology?

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Humanistic Approach

Front 30

Which curriculum approach emphasized socialization and life adjustment for students, as well as stronger family ties and school-community ties?

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Humanistic Approach

Front 31

Which curriculum approach allows the child considerable input into the curriculum?

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Humanistic Approach

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Curriculum committees in this approach are bottum up rather than top down.

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Humanistic Approach