Curriculum Development
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SUBJECT: Curriculum Development and Implementation
TOPIC: PRINCIPLES GOVERNING A CURRICULUM PROGRAM
Reporter: Joseyline K. Lad-ing
According to Burton and Brueckner, the following principles govern a curriculum development program:
1. A curriculum development program emerges out of an accurate picture of what the curriculum is now doing.
2. The program may be and is initiated by:
a) acting upon a criticism or dissatisfaction;
b) bringing up shortcomings for discussion;
c) Introducing a new departure in education.
3. A community diagnosis must be made in order to show accurately the existing constellation of convictions, opinions, attitudes, the channels of influence and power, and the key persons and organizations.
4. A participatory process should be used providing for the widest possible involvement of the professional staff and the community members.
A successful process must therefore provide for:
→ growth of the personnel;
→ observable results of the instructional materials and methods;
→ desirable type of security within the staff, pupils, and community;
→ continuity of efforts.
5. A functional organization and machinery must be developed
* A democratic and functional organization for a curriculum program is desirable because:
a. It is the most efficient method in the long run;
b. It provides full opportunity for individuals and minority groups who often have important contributions to mark;
c. It is likely to encourage and to utilize social invention;
d. It insures group solidarity, growth for individuals and groups, and accomplishment.
6. The program should be based on a geographic and administrative unit shallow enough to permit face-to-face contacts, with provisions for unnecessary coordination among small units.
7. A balance must be maintained between gradualism and rapidity.
→ a curriculum development program must be a gradual process.
→ Ideas dealing with mechanics, machinery, and material things will change for more rapidly but we can make no assumptions about changes in more subtle affairs.
8. The
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