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ASSIGNMENT 4: VIDEO
CHAPTER 2: TWO PARADIGMS
TWO PARADIGMS
CURRICULUM
CURRICULUM:
- PHILOSOPHY
- THEORY
- BELIEFS
- VALUES
SYLLABUS
A document that outlines all the essential information about a college course. It lists the topics you will study, as well as the due dates of any coursework including tests, quizzes, or exams.
curriculum decisions are realised
To concrete operational plans
Thomas Kuhn
Paradigms
Structure of scientific revolution (1970)
PARADIGMS
"SCIENTIFIC THINKING"
knowledge centred and person centred views
Influenced educational philosophy
Knowledge centred paradigm
Curricular design
"Education is a social science, deterines individual and social behaviour"- hard and real -based on experience - tangible form
KNOWLEDGE CENTRED PARADIGM
BEHAVIOURISM
DOCTRINS
Focus on the observable behaviour: stimulus and response.
B.F. SKINNER
POSITIVISM
Language as a verbal behaviour through cycles: stimulus, response, reinforcement.
All true knowledge is scientific: observation and experiment.
TRANSMISSION VS INTERPRETATION
Transmission teachers
INTERPRETATION TEACHERS
- Disciplines.
- Content or things to learn.
- Evaluation according to standards.
- Evaluate and correct learners.
- Interpret facts.
- Instrinsically interested.
- Set up dialogues.
- Great deal.
TYPE OF SYLLABUS
WHITE (1988)
It is a list of contents that communicates information about the whole course, it depends on specific topics, subtopics, it includes basic elements of the course.
SYLLABUS
TYPE-A
TYPE A SYLLABUS
- Programmes the syllabus designer.
- Pre-selects the language.
- Represents practices.
- Test the preselected items.
- transmission style teaching.
- Rational methods.
- List preselected items.
- Items are in a pre-arranged order.
- Items may vary from syllabus to syllabus.
- Functional categories (selection).
- Centred in tradition (grading).
TYPE B SYLLABUS
- Minimal interventions.
- Organised around a set of task.
- Content of instruction.
- Means of instruction.
- Based on the students' needs.
- Teacher and student work toguether.
- Procedural syllabus.
SYLLABUS
CURRICULUM
Guideline or outline. Descriptions of general goals. Reflective Political trends. Designed by the school. Measure of effectiveness. Contribute to the planning of an educational program.
Descriptive. Overview of class. Detailed. Operational statement. Translate the philosophy of the curriculum. Defined objectives.
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