Curriculum

Curriculum

1. According to Pinnar, W. (2004) curriculum theory is the interdisciplinary study of educational experience

2. Pinnar, W. (2004) also mentions three main characteristics of the curriculum:

   • In curriculum studies generally, there has been, since the 1970s:
     • 1. A shift from a focus on social engineering and the business model to the project of understanding, which involves the concept of curriculum as conversation
     • 2. the establishment of an intellectually independent—that is to say, not tied to specific pieces of legislation (such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001)—and academic field dedicated to understanding, and based primarily on research and theory in the humanities and the arts, not upon the social and behavior sciences
     • 3. A shift from the emphasis on teaching (especially the technology of instruction) to curriculum, especially interdisciplinary configurations such as African-American studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and cultural studies.

3. What I consider Curriculum should have

   • Taking into acount the student's interests. Principle do not always focus on this aspect
   • Considering new ways or methods that can approach both the student and the theory.
   • Stablish methods in which the student and teacher articulate their own experience towards the subject that they are dealing with.
   • Acknowledge the curriculums to the current context rather than applied old curriculums

4. Pinnar, W (2004) What is Curriculum Theory. LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS. Mahwah, New Jersey

5. Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Departamento de Lenguas Applied Linguistics and Literature in English Diego Francisco Rodríguez Vera