Sources and Elements of Curriculum

Sources and Elements of Curriculum

1. Curriculum Sources

   • Social Cultural Context
     • They answer the following demands:
       • General knowledge
       • Cultural heritage
       • Values into a society
   • Student
     • Each student is a particular and unique being.
       • Students play two roles
         • They are active curriculum
           • When the students share their culture and background knowledge.
         • They are tough with the attitudes and values that a culture hopes from them
   • Knowledge Areas
     • Different levels
       • Macro
       • Meso
       • Micro
     • They must be contextualized to student's background knowledge by professors.
     • it is all the subject that a professor or an institution have planned out to teach

2. Curriculum fundaments

   • They always depend on students, sociocultural context, and knowledge areas.
   • Their approach is through several sciences such as
     • Thus, it is possible to know students individually to choose the correct methodology.
     • Psychology
       • It allows to propose objective, selecting contents, and distribute them according to age of the students and the approached used.
       • Psychology answers the question of when, how, and what is it possible to learn in each moment.
     • sociology
       • It makes clear the students social dimensions as citizens of a particular Society.
     • philosophy
       • Axiology
         • It thinks about the citizens that a curriculum can develop.
       • Epistemology
         • Wha do we know and what is it workable to know?
           • There is a division between vital knowledge and secondary knowledge.
       • Political Education
         • Aims
         • Objectives
     • anthropology
       • It takes for Curriculum context systematized and daily culture.
         • This becomes a person into a hoping citizen.