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Looking at Curriculum

Looking at Curriculum. ECS 210 Dr. Carol Fulton. Overview. What is Curriculum? What Kinds of Curriculum? How Did Curriculum Come About? Do We A Paradigm Shift? – Sir Ken Robinson What Determines Curriculum?. What is Curriculum?. Some Definitions

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Looking at Curriculum

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  1. Looking at Curriculum ECS 210 Dr. Carol Fulton

  2. Overview • What is Curriculum? • What Kinds of Curriculum? • How Did Curriculum Come About? • Do We A Paradigm Shift? – Sir Ken Robinson • What Determines Curriculum?

  3. What is Curriculum? Some Definitions “The range of experiences both direct and indirect, concerned in unfolding the abilities of the individual.” “A series of consciously directed training experiences that the schools use for completing the perfecting the individual.” (Wiles and Bondi. 2011)

  4. More Definitions “Curriculum is all the learning of the students which is planned by and directed by the school to attain educational goals.” (Taba, 1962) • Curriculum as currere– to run (verb) • Curriculum as product - noun

  5. Even More • Curriculum is the collective story we tell our children about the past, present and future, (Grumet, 1981) • Curriculum is the story we tell about the world we want for the future and the people we want to be. (Bomer and Bomer, 1999)

  6. Wide Range of Definitions • Why so many definitions? • Curriculum as currere – “to run” (verb) • Curriculum as product – (noun)

  7. Kinds of Curriculum • http://ecs210.uregina.wikispaces.net/ • Explicit • Null • Hidden • Emergent Curriculum is political.

  8. We Need a Paradigm Shift Sir Ken Robinson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

  9. What Determines Curriculum? • Values of Society • Values of Curriculum Developers • Values of Community • Values of Teacher • What are YOUR values? How will they influence what and how you teach? Values relate to the 3 most important philosophical questions: What is good? What is true? What is real? • What is the source of what we teach? ( The good - axiology) • How do we teach? (The true - epistemology) • What content should we teacher? (The real - ontology).

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