CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Week 3

Philosophical foundations of curriculum :

Philosophy is defined as “ love of wisdom”. Philosophy is the beginning point in curriculum decision making and is the basis for all subsequent decisions regarding curriculum and it was the center of curriculum. Philosophy will help us on some question such as “what are schools for, what are subjects are of value and so on. The relationship of philosophy with school is to studies of learners, use of philosophy, studies contemporary life, suggestions from subject specialist and use of psychology of learning. Major of philosophy is like idealism, realism, pragmatism and existentialism. 

Idealism is most to spiritual, moral or mental. Truth and values are seen as absolute, timeless, and universal. For idealism, curriculum is hierarchical. Concept and abstract subjects are the top subjects. (Philosophy, theology).

Realism is where people can come to know the word through their senses and reason. Things will happen according to purpose and in orderly way. It is most focus on 3'R which is Reading, Writing and Arithmatic's. Besides, it has organized separate subjects curriculum.  For example study of humankind experience becomes history subject. 

Pragmatism is referred to as experimentalism, based on change, process, and relativity. There are nothing can be viewed intelligently except in relation to a pattern. For curriculum, it was views teaching as more exploratory than explanatory.

Existentialism is stress in individualism and personal self-

fulfillment. It prefers to free learner to choose what to study 

and determine what is truth. It also consists of experiences 

and subjects that lend themselves to philosophical dialogue 

and acts of choice making: Literature, drama, film-making, 

art, etc.Classroom would be rich in materials.

There also another major of philosophy such as 

perennialism, essentialism, progessivism and 

reconstructionism. 

Historical foundation of curriculum

Why is it important to know curriculum’s historical foundations? It is because a knowledge of curriculum’s history provides guidance for today’s curriculum makers. We begin our discussion with the colonial period and proceed through the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most of our discussion focuses on the past 100 years. As we know, each country has its own history of education. Such as American, their history of education is from colonial, transitional and national period. For our country it was

Malacca sultanate, British, Japan, Pre-Independent- post independent.  

Types of colonial schools is like Town school, paranoid school, colleges, academies, Latin Grammar school and Privates school. National period start from  1776 until 1850. At this time, we are with new government came a new mission for schools, saw the first laws to mandate the existences of schools in certain communities.

Week 2

This week, we have learned about Introduction to curriculum. we have discusses various curriculum approaches in terms of information about philosophical, historical, psychological, and social foundations of curriculum. Besides, there are some discussion of curriculum theory, curriculum development, curriculum designs and examines curriculum implementation models and numerous curriculum evaluation models. Curriculum is defined as planned sequence of what students are to learn, how students acquire that learning and how students' learning is verified. Besides, i have get new things for today which is basic of curriculum. It is like a plan for achieving goals, dealing with the leaders' experiences, a system for dealing with people, a field of study with its own foundations, knowledge domains, research, theory, principles and specialist and subject matter (math, science, English, history and so on). After study this topic, i can realize that curriculum is important for educator. Why i said it was important because it is reflect back on your school learning experiences and identify two things you disliked about the learning experiences. If we want to know who owns the curriculum, a teacher in public school is an employee of the district, which is an educational entity of the state. 

  

That's all from me for today and hope you can get what I want to tell you all here. 

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Hello 

I'm Angela Avit, Bachelor of Education student at Unitar International University, Regional Centre Kuching Sarawak. Now I'm in semester 3. This is the first time I created blog. So I hope you enjoy your time with me on my blog. 

Before that, I'm glad to introduce myself. I am Kayan and come from Miri. Actually I come from Ulu Baram but I think most of people outside there don't know where that place. I have 6 sibling which is 3 sisters and 2 brothers and Im the third child amongs 6 of us. My favorite food is Laksa Sarawak, pucuk ubi, and kolok mee. I started attend school by 5 years old at kindergarten at my village. After finish my kindergarten stage, I entered primary school in SK Long Bemang. School day is the best day ever for me because there's alot kind of people that sometime make you crazy or something else. I really enjoyed my primary school where I had active in any activities that held by school. Move to secondary school, my Form 1 until Form 3 was at SMK Tutoh Apoh and when I was in Form 4 until Form 6, I was at SMK Marudi. Having more than 2 high school such a great time for me. When I was in Form 1 until Form 3 at SMK Tutoh Apoh, I started realized that going to high school is not bad as I imagined. I enjoyed every moment at SMK Tutoh Apoh and the things that never forgot for me was at the end of year when I was in form 1, my school had a heavy flood until my school need to closed for awhile. Actually my school beside the Apoh river and we gonna had a flood until 4-5 time a year. After graduated from SMK Tutoh Apoh, I continued my study at SMK Marudi. I'm very proud being one of student here because we had a great team of debater. After graduated from SMK Marudi, I do part time job at Miri almost 1 year and started entered Unitar International University. And here I am one of Unitar student.

 So...I think this enough already. Actually there are many things I want to shared, but this time let stop here. 

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