Curriculum

Impact on Curriculum Design? Bertha Marie Payne University of West Alabama The discussion has been raised many times in regards to the negative impact that standardized testing can have on curriculum design. Some feel that the time, talent, and effort that goes into curriculum design is tainted by standardized test guidelines. This paper points out areas that can be negatively impacted by the over utilization of standardized assessment concepts within the local schools’ curriculum…

The next concept that was the five education philosophies that the book talks about. The five philosophies are Essentialism, Perennialism, Progressivism, Social reconstructionism/ critical theory, and Existentialism. After reading about this in the book I found out that my education philosophy is Essentialism. Essentialism is teaching the core knowledge that students need to be educated citizens; this knowledge is embodied in traditional academic disciplines such as history and mathematics. The…

interdisciplinary approach has become significant and challenging in the modern curriculum. It is a key concept that has been used throughout all levels of education. A lot of discussions have been made about integrative learning, the broader term of interdisciplinary learning, however, in the twentieth century the definition of integration extended (Klein, 2005, p. 8). This curriculum also touches upon the Victorian Curriculum capabilities, as well as the engagement of an…

arguments presented here illustrate the process by which rhetoric and history of curriculum influence the displacement of women as agents in history and history education, particularly as the standardization movement has become the predominant marker of what constitutes knowledge in public schooling experiences. In fact, curriculum scholar, William Pinar (2012) contends that “it is the symbolic character of curriculum that renders debates over the canon struggles over the American identity…

subjects within the core curriculum as their sighted peers, such as mathematics, language arts and history. However, individuals with visual impairments are unable to access the core curriculum on the same level because they lack visual skills that are responsible for casual learning. Without intentional and direct intervention by a highly specialized educator, students with visual impairments are at a disadvantage. In order for students to master the core curriculum and eventually become…

how the curriculum was taught from the teachers and allowed the government total control. This curriculum was made up of three core subjects and seven foundation subjects. Primary schools also had to teach religious education; the local authority determined the syllabus for this. Written by a government ‘quango’ of subject specialists and with a substantial content base, teachers were hardly involved in the development of the national curriculum and felt they were deliverers of a curriculum…

(Australian Government Department of Education Employment and Work Relations [DEEWR], 2009, p.46). Students with in the Australian Curriculum become literate by developing skills, knowledge and dispositions to understand and utilize language confidently for communicating, learning in the school and participating effectively in the society beyond the school (Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2015). Literacy…

subjects and obey the curriculum. Curriculum changing by Ministry of Education changes leadership; therefore, they force students to adhere the curriculum. In practice, the system is not changing only the books they learn are changing. The success of applying curriculum focuses on three factors: people, programs, and processes (Ornstein & Hunkins (2009: 250). The President contributes consideration to Indonesia Education System with alteration of Curriculum KTSP 2006 to Curriculum 2013. Hence…

opposed to Young’s claim is the fact that this type of knowledge does not provide much assistance in moulding and shaping the curriculum schools should have in place. He also states that Young is unsuccessful in complying with the criterion for the national curriculum, as it is deficient of theoretical framework and believes that powerful knowledge, as a rationale for a curriculum will easily fall apart once it has initially been subjected to…

have assumed that the major flaw in United States public education is lack of funding, combined with some problems with curriculum. Nothing could be further from the truth. Far deeper problems pervade the system; the core philosophy directly results in poor education. A combination of the Prussian system of education, Marxist philosophies of education, and revisionist curriculums have polluted the national education system of the United States. Education in Renaissance Europe made use of a…