Five Theoretical Perspectives on Curriculum

Five Theoretical Perspectives on Curriculum

1. The Traditional Perspective

   • The perspective is bent on preserving cultural heritage
   • pimary goal is to transmit the accumulated knowledge of society
   • nineteenth century

2. The Experiential Perspective

   • holistic approach to students by considering all their experiences
   • curriculum is more or less the same as the very process of living

3. Structure of the Disciplines

   • if a student can understand the structure of a discipline
     • then the student can acquire the knowledge base of that discipline independently

4. The Behavioral Perspective

   • posits that educators should not be as concerned with a focus on content as they should be on the behaviors students acquire while in school
   • educators themselves that became critics of the behavioral perspective

5. The Constructivist Perspective

   • Jean Piaget
     • students assimilate information, as opposed to acquire it
   • is a prime way to create
     • curricula for students to absorb knowledge