Curriculum Approaches
Notes:
- oldest and major approach to curriculum
- logical and prescriptive; relies on technical and scientific principles
- goals and objectives; content and activities; learning outcomes evaluated
Tyler: Use philosophy to drive decisionmaking
- school as a social system; people interact according to certain norms
- focus on supervisory and administrative aspects of curriculum
- change agent; principal as a curriculum leader
- views various units or subunits of the organization in relation to the whole
- org diagrams, flow charts, and committee structures
- influenced by systems theory
- PPBS<PERT<Total Quality Control
- analyzes and synthesizes major positions, trends, and concepts of curriculum
- focuses on the nature and structure of knowledge; on how knowledge is constructed, destructed, and then reconstructed; and implications for curriculum development and delivery
- rooted in progressive philosophy and child centered movement
- faith in cooperative learning, independent learning, small groups, and social activities