Curricular Approaches

Curricular Approaches

1. An approach is considered as a way of looking at teaching and learning process according to the view you could have

2. It gives rise to methods for teaching something the activities and also techniques derived trough certain method

3. TYLER APPROACH

   • In 1921, at the age of 19, Tyler received the AB degree from Doane University in Crete, Nebraska.
     • Ralph Tyler became a "teaching addict," he served as a science teacher in South Dakota.
   • THE CURRICULUM BY TYLER
     • Tyler says that everyone who has to design a curriculum will have to go first to three sources:
       • The Students
       • The Society
       • The Content requirements
     • Four basic questions must be answered to develop a successful curriculum.
       • What learning do you want students to achieve? (Objectives).
       • Through what learning situations can such learning be achieved? (Activities).
       • What resources will be used for this? (Didactic resources).
       • How will I assess whether students have effectively learned these objectives? (evaluation)
     • Tyler mentions that every institution is under a philosophy and learning and the objectives must be well impregnated with the entire system in which that institution is immersed.

4. JOHN DEWEY

   • He was against of what he called "the viewer's knowledge theory." In Democracy and Education
     • He intended to formulate new pedagogical proposals in opposition to the traditional school.
   • NEW CURRICULAR MODELS
     • Is a set of technical prescriptions that indicate how a Curriculum Design should be developed and what components to include
     • When talking about new curricular models some important have arisen:
       • SCIENTIFIC MODEL
         • It focuses on how to deliver information by optimizing the teaching-learning process through search and selection of effective technological means to produce learning according to the desired ends.
         • Taba recorre el congnitivismo para la elaboración del currículo, planteando que en este ejercicio el alumno debe desarrollar conocimientos, habilidades y actitudes
       • HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
         • Is a close link between national economic growth and the expansion of individual human choices
         • The human costs of the Structural Adjustment Programs became more evident and a wave of democratization in the early 1990s raised hopes for the creation of people-centered models.

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