CURRICULUM THEORIZING

CURRICULUM THEORIZING

1. Categories

   • Prescriptive theorizes
     • Attemp to create models or frameworks for curriculum development that improve school practices
   • Descriptive theorizers
     • Attemp to identify how curriculum development actually takes place
   • Critical-exploratory theorizers
     • Approaches
       • - Postmodern
       • - Racial
       • - Gender Analysis and Feminist Pedagogy
       • - Existential and Psychoanalytical
       • - Autobiographical/Biographical
       • - Gender Analysis and Male Identity

2. Walker’s naturalistic model

   • Deliberation
     • Identify, generate, consider, weight and choose
   • Design
     • The set of relationships embodied in the materials-in-use
   • Platform
     • Procedures, images, aims, theories and conceptions

3. Evaluation of Tyler’s Approach

   • Despite certain ambiguities about how to select objectives and how to use some sources of data, the Tyler rationale encompasses most of our basic concerns about curriculum
     • Ralph Tyler's principles
       • Objectives
         • Selecting learning experiences
           • Organizing learning experiences
             • Evaluation