Module 5 intro
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This document outlines the content and activities for Module 5 of a curriculum development course. It includes an introduction, an overview of different educational contexts and four main curriculum ideologies: scholar academic, social efficiency, social reconstruction, and learner-centered. Later, it describes a group task for students to discuss the purpose of schooling, which ideology best fits their curriculum area, alternatives, and what wouldn't work.
Module 5 intro
- 1. MODULE 5 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT FOR INCLUSIVE PRACTICE
- 2. Module timetable • Learning outcomes • Indicative content • Assessment - Seminar (50%) - Observation 5 (50%)
- 3. Introductions… • Name • Area of work • Teaching background • Plans for future…
- 4. Different context in the lifelong learning sector • Sixth Form Colleges • FE Colleges • Adult and Community Learning • Emergency Public Services • Armed Services • Voluntary Sector • Work-based learning
- 5. Curriculum ideologies • For almost a hundred years, educators have been at war with each other over curriculum issues. • Four main curriculum ideologies—or curriculum philosophies—that advocate very different purposes for schooling and very different methods of achieving those respective purposes.
- 6. Changes to National Curriculum • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGWi7Tjv eWM&list=PL8J9oi-nz2_XGDXkF-gQo2U4XLb0FlRqs (1min49s)
- 7. Each of the four visions of curriculum HAVE • Distinct beliefs about the type of knowledge that should be taught in schools • The inherent nature of children • What school learning consists of • How teachers should instruct children • How children should be assessed.
- 8. The Scholar Academic Ideology • Believes that over the centuries our culture has accumulated important knowledge that has been organized into the academic disciplines found in universities. • The purpose of education is to help children learn the accumulated knowledge of our culture: that of the academic disciplines (eg Sixth Form). • Acquiring an understanding of an academic discipline involves learning its content, conceptual frameworks, and ways of thinking. • Teachers should be mini-scholars
- 9. The Social Efficiency Ideology • The purpose of schooling is to efficiently meet the needs of society by training youth to function as future mature contributing members of society. • Goal is to train youth in the skills and procedures they will need in the workplace and at home to live productive lives and perpetuate the functioning of society ( egFE Colleges). • Youth achieve an education by learning to perform the functions necessary for social productivity. • Teachers manage instruction by selecting and using educational strategies designed to help learners acquire the behaviors prescribed by their curriculum.
- 10. Social Reconstruction Ideology • View curriculum from a social perspective. • Conscious of the problems of our society and the injustices done to its members, such as those originating from racial, gender, social, and economic inequalities. • Assume that the purpose of education is to facilitate the construction of a new and more just society that offers maximum satisfaction to all of its members. • Assume that education is the social process through which society is reconstructed. • They have faith in the ability of education, through the medium of curriculum, to teach people to understand their society in such a way that they can develop a vision of a better society and act to bring that vision into existence.
- 11. The Learner Centered Ideology • Focuses not on the needs of society or the academic disciplines, but on the needs and concerns of individuals. • They believe schools should be enjoyable places where people develop naturally according to their own innate natures. • The goal of education is the growth of individuals, each in harmony with his or her own unique intellectual, social, emotional, and physical attributes. • It is the job of educators to carefully create those contexts, environments, or units of work, which will stimulate growth in people as they construct meaning (and thus learning and knowledge) for themselves.
- 12. Teachers TV- The Montessori Method • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMqSG9 8a8M (27 mins)
- 13. Group Task (30 mins) In your group, consider and discuss:- • What is the purpose of schooling? • Identify your curriculum area. Which Ideology best describes it and WHY? • Which other ideology would work better in your curriculum and why? • Which ideology would CERTAINLY NOT work for your curriculum? • Flip chart presentation afterwards…