WEEK 2

WEEK 2

TOPIC 1: FOUNDATIONS AND DOMAINS OF CURRICULUM & PEDAGOGY

• DEFINITION OF CURRICULUM  
•         Curriculum is the “content” or “subject matter” of instruction. The content includes the whole range of matters in which the student is expected to gain some knowledge and competence (Philip Phenix, 1962).
•          As content, as learning experiences, as behavioral objectives, as a plan for instruction, and as a nontechnical approach (Fred C. Lunenburg, International Journal Of Scholarly Academic Intellectual Diversity , 2011).
•         The curriculum is all the experiences that individual learners have in a program of education whose purpose is to achieve broad goals and related specific objectives, which is planned in terms of a framework of theory and research, or past and present professional practice. Parkay and Hass (2000).

                      

Ø              WHAT IS PEDAGOGY?

• ·         The art, science or profession of teaching

• ·         Word origin:  Greek word paidagogos paid=child, agogos= leader (slave who took child to school)

• ·         Defined as the exploration of effective teaching and learning strategies.

• ·         Also defined as the art and science of teaching children. In the pedagogical model, the teacher has full responsibility for making decisions about what will be learned, how it will be learned, when it will be learned, and if the material has been learned.

 

•         Pedagogy, or teacher-directed instruction as it is commonly known, places the student in a submissive role requiring obedience to the teacher's instructions.

• ·         It is based on the assumption that learners need to know only what the teacher teaches the

 

•  he result is a teaching and learning situation that actively promotes dependency on the instructor