CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT (ESEB 2054)
WEEK 5
SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF CURRICULUM

Difference between schooling and education...

Social and development theories

- A number of theories focus on global aspects of human 

growth and development. This is because they emphasize 

the study of behavior as a totality, starting with infancy, they 

combine Gestalt psychology with socialization.

6 periods in human development :

 (1)infancy and early child- hood,

(2)middle childhood,

(3)adolescence,

(4)early adulthood,

(5)middle age, and

(6)late maturity. 

The culture of the school is conformity in class and copying 

and caring. The culture of the classroom is peer group, peer 

culture and the school and peer and racial group.