Social Foundation Of Curriculum

Question 1

Social Foundation of Curriculum

Answer 1

• Society as a source of change.
• Schools as agent of change.
• Knowledge as an agent of Change

Question 2

John Dewey

Answer 2

• He considered two functional elements –
schools and civil society to be major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and
plurality.

Question 3

Alvin Toffler

Answer 3

• He wrote the Future Shock.
- believed that knowledge should prepare students for the future.
- suggested that in the future, parents might have the resources to teach prescribed curriculum from home as a result of technology,
not in spite of it. (Home Schooling)
- Foresaw schools and students worked creatively, collaboratively, and independent of
their age.