ELEMENTS/COMPONENTS OF THE CURRICULUM Flashcards
The four components of the curriculum are:
1.Curriculum Aims, Goals and Objectives
2.Curriculum Content or Subject Matter
3.Curriculum Experience
4.Curriculum Evaluation
simplified as “what is to be done”,
Curriculum Aims, Goals and Objectives
Aims of Elementary Education (Education Act 1982)
Provide knowledge and develop skills, attitudes, values.
- Provide learning experiences.
-Promote and intensify knowledge.
- Promote work experiences
Aims of Secondary Education
-Continue to promote the objectives of elementary education
-Discover and enhance the different aptitudes and interests of students
Aims of Tertiary Education
-Provide general education program
-Train the nation’s manpower in the skills
-Develop the professions
-Develop the professions
-Advance knowledge through research and apply new knowledge
The school’s ______ statement, spells out how it intends to carry out its vision.
mission
Benjamin Bloom and Robert Mager defined educational objectives in two ways:
- EXPLICIT FORMULATION
- INTENT COMMUNICATED
by statement describing a proposed change in learners
INTENT COMMUNICATED
of the ways in which students are expected to be changed by the educative process
EXPLICIT FORMULATION
According to him, “Knowledge is a model we construct to give meaning and structure to regularities in experience”
Gerome Bruner