BASIC CONCEPTS AND CURRICULUM THEORY

BASIC CONCEPTS AND CURRICULUM THEORY

1. In this context, education aims to incorporate subjects into a specific society that has its own cultural patterns and characteristics; that is, education is an action that implies the intentionality of progressive social improvement that allows human beings to develop all their potential.

   • PLATO
     • The center of Plato's philosophy is his theory of forms or ideas. Basically, his idea of knowledge, his ethical theory, his psychology, his concept of the State and his conception of art must be understood from that perspective.
   • ARISTOTELES
     • His reflection dealt with all the main areas of philosophy (metaphysics, nature philosophy, knowledge theory, logic, anthropology, ethics, politics, aesthetics ...) and in all fields, although influenced by his master Plato, He made original contributions.
   • KANT
     • The first is the time when the student must show passive submission and obedience in this first one a mechanical force governs an rests on exercise and discipline; the second is when the student is allowed to make use of his capacity for reflection and his freedom which is determined or guided by the laws that rule society, in the second a moral force is always present and based on maxims.
   • MONTESORI
     • Her passion for education began when she studied some children with mental disorders and decided to devote her life to help them progress.