Contemporary
Traditional

Education Curriculum

Curriculum Design

Subject Centered

Subject Design

Discipline Design

Correlation Design

Process Design

Curriculum Design

Learner Centered

Child Centered Design

Experience Centered Design

Radical Design

Humanistic Design

Problem Centered

Life Situation Design

Reconstructionist Design

Early Childhood Education

Child centered

multiple learning opportunties/entry points

Multidimensional education programs

Culture Based Curricula

Critical Thinking

Communication/social interactions

Citizenship

family/home partnership

Student Needs Exceptional Learners

All philosophical groups' goals is to ensure student
learning. Careful consideration to philosophies
and curriculum design is especially important when
designing individual curriculums for exceptional learners

Classroom Teachers

Classroom teacher's should be involved in the development and design of curriculums. Teacher involvement in the process development of curriculum is essential in aligning content with student needs. No curriculum will be perfect but to be effective, it must be validated by classroom teachers. Curriculum design and development should be on ongoing process meeting student needs and therefor fostering student learning.

Sources of Curriculum

knowledge

A Dicipline

with structure

methods

Extend Boundaries

Prized and Valued

Plato

Subtopic

Society

Agent of Society

Draws from Current and Future
Social Situations

Political

Eternal Truth

Looks to the Past/Lasting Truths

Religious beliefs

Psychology

How Minds Create Knowledge and learn

Learning Process

Constructing and Deconstructing Knowledge

Science

Scientific Method

Problem Solving

Metacognition

Learner as a Source

Brain Mapping Science

Construct Knowledge

Form Attitudes

Create Interest

Develop Values

Learner Source of Curriculum

Content Organization

Continuity & Sequence

Multiple experiences

Recurrence & repetition

Depth

Scope

What is required

Important Ideas

Important concepts

Intellectual processes

Integration

Relationships to concepts

Relationships to skills

Relationships to values

Shaddow Curriculum

Operational Curriculum

Hidden Curriculum

Null Curriculum

Philosophical Foundations

Progressivism: Pragmatism

Humanistic

Problem solving

Student Interest

Reconstructionism: Pragmaticism

Social Sciences

Teacher = Project Director

Current and Future trends in education

Perennialism: Realism

Classical subjects

Traditional Values

Mastery of facts

Essentialism: Idealism, Realism

Back to Basics

Focus on essential skills

Explicit Teaching

Concepts of Curriculum

Cognitive-Process

Learner Centered

Intellectual Skills Development

How We Learn

Technological Conception

The How of Teaching

Efficiencies and concisee

Academic Rationalism

Classic/Traditional

Disciplines

Cultural Transmission

Social Rconstructionism

Social Needs/Change

Agent of change

individual Growth

Philosophy determines the decisions and choices we make as curriculum designers. Our philosophy evolves and is shaped through our experiences, reflection, critical thinking and a growth mindset.

References

Eisner, E., & Vallance, E. (Eds.). (1974). Five conceptions of the curriculum: Their roots and implications for curriculum planning.In E. Eisner & E. Vallance (Eds.), Conflicting conceptions of curriculum (pp. 1-18). Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing

Ornstein, A. C. (1990/1991). Philosophy as a basis for curriculum decisions. The High School Journal, 74, 102-109.

Ornstein, A. C., & Hunkins, F. P. (2013). Curriculum: Foundations, principles, and issues (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson. Read Chapter 6, pp. 149-173.

Samuelsson, I. P., Sheridan, S., & Williams, P. (2006). Five preschool curricula—comparative perspective. International Journal of Early Childhood, 38(1), 11.

Sowell, E. J. (2005). Curriculum: An integrative introduction (3rd ed., pp. 52-54, 55-61, 81-85,103-106). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Vallance. (1986). A second look at conflicting conceptions of the curriculum. Theory into Practice, 25(1), 24-30

MODULE 3 Looking closer at curriculum designs in relation to planning, instruction and assessment.