Summary Chapter 7
Summary Chapter 7
Summary Chapter 7
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CHAPTER7
SUMMARY
THE SUMMARY OF CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
The curriculum of any educational institution is the cornerstone of the
intellectual life of the institutions inhabitants. It , the curriculum , provides students
and teachers with lived experiences that ideally foster deep understandings,
sophisticated skills , appreciate attitudes, and socially constructive values .therefore, it
is essential that great care be given to the creation of curricula. We need to understand
the various processes and approaches available .We need to know how to activate
these various curricular planning approaches at school levels. Curriculum
development is where the action is. This doesn’t mean that those who are scholars in
the fields of curriculum should not deal with broad issues such as social policy,
cultural mores, and political powers.But the key activity for educators where the
rubber hits the road , is creating educational programs that engage students in learning
and empowering them to construct their own meanings and to comprehend the
meaning of scholars, to take curriculum as vision to an actual program.
Each curriculum describes several and different approaches which reflect the
developer’s view of reality, philosophy, history, psychology, social issues, and the
domains of knowledge. For every approach, it expresses an orientation or perspective
about curriculum development which impacts on the design of the curriculum, the
role of schools, administrators,teachers, learners, curriculum specialists, and
requirements for implementation and evaluation such as instructional
materials,equipment and facilities. There are two classifications of curriculum
approach: 1. technical-scientific approach. 2. non-technical/ non-scientific approach.
Naturalistic Model (Glatthorn): assess the alternatives, stake out the territory,
develop a constituency, build a knowledge base, block in the unit, plan quality
learning experiences, develop the course examination, develop the learning scenarios.
The participants are various, such as political arena:what type of curricula will
benefit what student, show to select those criteria who will receive the benefit of
particular curricula how to deliver those benefits, school arena participants, the
participants outside of school, governmental participants, non-governmental
participants, participants in developing the curriculum.