Curriculum Development (ESEB2054)
week 4

Psychology - curriculum

•Basis of understanding – John Dewey

•a “screen” – Ralp Tyler

•Modes of thinking – Jerome Bruner

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•“Unifying elements of the learning process.  It forms the 

   basis for the methods, materials, and activity of learning… 
   
   serves… for many curriculum decision (p. 100)”

Major theorist of learning

•Behaviorism – stimulus and reinforces

•Cognitivism – mental operation

•Humanistic psychology – whole child (social, psychology, 

 and cognitive development)