Component 2 curriculum content
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The document discusses different views of curriculum - a subject-centered view which focuses on transmitting accumulated human knowledge, and a learner-centered view which relates knowledge to individual learners' experiences. It then outlines principles for developing an effective curriculum, including ensuring content is valid, useful, learnable given available resources, balanced, articulated in a logical sequence, integrated across subjects, and continuously reinforced.
Component 2 curriculum content
- 2. Subject-centered view of curriculum • The fund of human knowledge represents the repository of accumulated discoveries and inventions of man down the centuries, due to man’s exploration of the world.
- 3. Learner-centered view of curriculum • Relates knowledge to the individual’s personal and social world and how he or she defines reality. • Gerome Bruner: “Knowledge is a model we construct to give meaning and structure to regularities in experience.”
- 5. • Self-sufficiency – “less teaching effort and educational resources, less learner’s effort but more results and effective learning outcomes – most economical manner (Scheffler, 1970) • Significance – contribute to basic ideas to achieve overall aim of curriculum, develop learning skills.
- 6. Validity – meaningful to the learner based on maturity, prior experience, educational and social value. Utility – usefulness of the content either for the present or the future.
- 7. Learnability – within the range of the experience of the learners Feasibility – can be learned within the time allowed, resources available, expertise of the teacher, nature of learner
- 9. Balance – Content curriculum should be fairly distributed in depth and breadth of the particular learning or discipline. This will ensure that the level or area will not be overcrowded or less crowded.
- 10. • Articulation – Each level of subject matter should be smoothly connected to the next, glaring gaps or wasteful overlaps in the subject matter will be avoided. • Sequence – This is the logical arrangement of the subject matter. It refers to the deepening and broadening of content as it is taken up in the higher level.
- 11. The horizontal connections are needed in subject areas that are similar so that learning will be related to one another. This is INTEGRATION.
- 12. Learning requires a continuing application of the new knowledge, skills, attitudes or values so that theses will be used in daily living. The constant repetition, review and reinforcement of learning is what is referred to as CONTINUITY.