curriculum verbatim: educators, philosophers & curriculum
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This presentation in part represents my research for Competency I as a licensure student at Goddard College in the Education program. Slide annotations are included in the History of School Reform Timeline I will also submit with my packet.TRANSCRIPT
Curriculum Verbatim:
By Bronwen AbbattistaGoddard EDU Program, Competency I
August 29, 2012
Educators, Philosophers & Curriculum
What is curriculum?
“Curriculum is that process whereby the school facilitates the integration of the students’ experiences, planned and unplanned, in school and out, into a coherent framework having personal meaning for that student.”From a discussion with Arnie Langberg, co-founder of the Harmony Project
In other words, curriculum can be just about anything.
How have people thought about curriculum and pedagogy since the beginning of education in this country?
Great question!
Here’s what some of the mostinfluential figures in education have to say…
1936
Schoolhouses are the
republican line Of fortifications.
- Horace Mann
The ideal aim of education
is creation of power
- John Dewey
of self-control.
To be a teacher and educator one must
work with what is taking place in the depths of human
nature.
- Rudolf Steiner
1936
We become ourselves through others. - Lev Vygotsky
Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.
- Jean Piaget
1934
Children who are free have much less hate to express than those who are
downtrodden.
- A. S. Neill
We know how to find pearls in the shells of oysters, gold in the mountains and coal in the bowels of the earth, but we are unaware of the spiritual germs, the creative nebulae, that the child hides in himself.
- Maria Montessori
IF THE STRUCT
URE
DOES NOT
PERMITDIALOGU
ECHANGED.
THE STRUCTURE MUST BE - Paulo Freire