SOC 3340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Progressive Education, Hidden Curriculum, Block Scheduling
4 Nov 2013
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Chapter 8 curriculum: the content of schooling. Includes not only formal programs of instruction, learning material, course content, and lesson plans, but also school rules, procedures and routines. Schools are primary institution for socializing youngsters. Curricular designers are mandated to nurture personal traits and technical competencies that will allow future citizens to contribute to both civic and economic realms. Include teaching facts, promoting technical abilities such as arithmetic and grammar, boosting skills like debating, persuading, reasoning, and critical thinking, promoting fundamental values and virtues such as authority, respect, trust, honesty, civility, fairness, responsibility and tolerance. Controversy complexity of knowledge in today"s world. What to include, how to sequence it and how to optimize its breadth and coherence. How schools prioritize some content and forms over others stratify knowledge itself, defining what does and doesn"t count as official" knowledge. Darwinian evolution and rational logic are 2 examples of the official knowledge" that school curriculum legitimates.
