CURRICULUM PLANNING AND CONDUCTING CLASSES Flashcards
refers to a planned set of learning experiences that the educational
institution intends to provide its learners. Choices and decisions in the development of a
curriculum is based on the sociocultural, technological, and economic changes in society as well as thorough understanding of the educational philosophy and ideologies on which it is based.
Curriculum
Three educational philosophies underpin the development of a curriculum:
conservative
progressive
radical views.
w stresses that there are certain truths that
should be taught and learned. Accordingly, the purpose of education is to transmit the
‘worthwhile bodies of information to generations of learners in order that, what is worthwhile is conserved.
Conservative View
is associated with the rise of dissatisfaction with
traditional education. practices which places emphasis on content and totally disregards
learners’ needs and interest in education.
Progressive View
states that education should do more than preparing
learners for participatory democratic citizenship. Education should also prepare them for
deliberative citizenship where the autonomous and self-styled learning process takes place.
Radical View
The curriculum is an intellectual development process conceived to promote mastery
of the subject matter with the primary purpose of building a storehouse of information, skills and values. The curriculum meets the needs of the community where teaching and learning takes place and the needs of the discipline from which learners are to be trained and developed.
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Factors which Influence Curriculum Development
Philosophy of Nursing Education Educational Psychology Society Students Life Activities Knowledge.
Life Activities include the following:
Professional – activities specific to one’s chosen career.
Family – her role as a member of the family
Civic – her duty as a citizen
Leisure – her personal activities without responsibilities
Spiritual – her activities which relate to her creator or religious beliefs
constitutes the basis for the final selection of the aims and objectives of the nursing curriculum. It provides knowledge and guiding principles which unify the criteria for the evaluation of the aims and purposes of the curriculum.
Philosophy of Nursing Education
It refers to the science which develops learning through
experimentation. It provides data from which the principles of learning are developed.
Educational Psychology
It serves as an important guide in the selection of educational objectives and
the development of the curriculum in nursing. Since people are the end-users of the
product of the curriculum, it makes sense that they respond to educational goals and objectives which also serve as the source of efforts to revise, refine, or change the
curriculum.
Society
The curriculum recognizes the importance of the individual needs of
students as persons.
Students
refer to personal activities in which students engage
information as a nurse and as an individual.
Life Activities
Ways of acquiring knowledge through the curriculum are identified in
relation to two roles: that of the “onlooker” and that of the “participant”. The onlooker
is the individual who needs background knowledge to understand the principles from
a particular field of study or inquiry. The participant is a scholar of a particular discipline
who needs more mastery of the field where the curriculum is developed.
Knowledge
preparation includes the liberal arts program which leads to the
personal development of the student
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