Incorporating the Curriculum needs into your teaching plan.
As the world we live goes through changes, we also need to incorporate evolution into our children’s education so as to keep up with the time. How we view the curriculum at times got interpreted by how we actually carry it out. Depending on our personal views, the definition we give to the curriculum may vary, as long as we take it into account that the definition for the curriculum is not static, it is dynamic and tend to change with time. According to Todd writing in 1995, “A curriculum is defined as the planned educational experiences offered by a school which can take place anywhere at any time in the multiple context of the school (pg. 2).” Another good definition is offered Wilson writing in 1990, he defines curriculum as “Anything and everything that teaches a lesson, planned or …show more content…
Longstreet and Shane (1993) view the hidden curriculum as “the kinds of learning children derive from the very nature and organizational design of the public school, as well as from the behaviours and attitudes of teachers and administrators” (pg. 46). The term, ‘hidden curriculum’ was coined by sociologist Phillip Jackson in 1968, but the concept of hidden curriculum was around much longer than that. Jackson argues that what is taught at schools is more than the essence of the curriculum. His thoughts were around that schools should be understood in grounds of socialization process, in which children are being given messages through their experience of being in school, not just from things that are unequivocally taught. In a different perspective “the hidden curriculum is a something coming across to pupils which may never be spoken in the English lesson or prayed about in assembly. They are picking up an approach to living and an attitude to learning” (Meighan, 1981). The hidden curriculum provides a leeway for educators to impress upon learners their values,
As the world we live goes through changes, we also need to incorporate evolution into our children’s education so as to keep up with the time. How we view the curriculum at times got interpreted by how we actually carry it out. Depending on our personal views, the definition we give to the curriculum may vary, as long as we take it into account that the definition for the curriculum is not static, it is dynamic and tend to change with time. According to Todd writing in 1995, “A curriculum is defined as the planned educational experiences offered by a school which can take place anywhere at any time in the multiple context of the school (pg. 2).” Another good definition is offered Wilson writing in 1990, he defines curriculum as “Anything and everything that teaches a lesson, planned or …show more content…
Longstreet and Shane (1993) view the hidden curriculum as “the kinds of learning children derive from the very nature and organizational design of the public school, as well as from the behaviours and attitudes of teachers and administrators” (pg. 46). The term, ‘hidden curriculum’ was coined by sociologist Phillip Jackson in 1968, but the concept of hidden curriculum was around much longer than that. Jackson argues that what is taught at schools is more than the essence of the curriculum. His thoughts were around that schools should be understood in grounds of socialization process, in which children are being given messages through their experience of being in school, not just from things that are unequivocally taught. In a different perspective “the hidden curriculum is a something coming across to pupils which may never be spoken in the English lesson or prayed about in assembly. They are picking up an approach to living and an attitude to learning” (Meighan, 1981). The hidden curriculum provides a leeway for educators to impress upon learners their values,