CESAR COLL’S CONSTRUCTIVIST CURRICULUM MODEL

CESAR COLL’S CONSTRUCTIVIST CURRICULUM MODEL

1. Cesar Coll Salvador was a primary school professor. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a PhD in Psychology. He has worked as a Psycholgy of Education professor at the Barcelona University. He has played an important role in the curriculum design of Spain’s Preschool, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Education Sec. Post Compulsory. Inspired by Peaget, he keeps a constructvist view of the teaching learnign process.

2. understands curriculum as a "project which governs the educational activities of schools, (which) expresses the goals of these activities and provides guidelines for appropriate and useful action for teachers who have direct responsibility for their implementation" (Coll, C ., op.cit p.31), The design of the curriculum must take into account two fundamental aspects: the distribution of powers (responsibilities) in developing and implementing the curriculum and the adoption of constructivism in school learning

3. In my practicum