Two Of The Features

Two Of The Features
Learning is planned and guidedWe have to specify in advanced what we are seeking to achieve and how we are to go about it.
The definition refers to schoolingWe should recognize that our current appreciation of curriculum theory and practice emerged in the school and in relation to other schooling ideas such as subject and lesson.
Four ways of approaching curriculum theory and practice:
1. Curriculum as a body of knowledge to be transmitted.2. Curriculum as an attempt to achieve certain ends in students - product.3. Curriculum as process.4. Curriculum as praxis.
It is helpful to consider these ways of approaching curriculum theory and practice in the light of Aristotle's influential categorization of knowledge into three disciplines: the theorical, the productive and the practical.
The body of knowledge to be transmitted in the first is that classically valued as 'the canon'; the process and praxis models come close to practical deliberation; and the technical concerns of the outcome or product model mirror elements of Aristotle's characterization of productive. More this will be revealed as we examine the theory underpinning individual models.
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