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Synopsis (summary) Critical points a. Agreement b. Disagreement Note: substantiate your points by mentioning your personal experiences and/or citing empirical evidences from previous research findings found in the literature.

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Learning insights (conclusion/ recommendation) Curriculum has been moving on every now and then. Sometimes it declines or it has a great effect on the students and teachers. The cycle is just like from the past until today

Curriculum for the New Millennium I. Synopsis If were going to look from the past, we will see that there are a lot of curriculums being proposed and changed and the problems that had been encountered until now. From the past, Elliot Eisner identified five curriculum orientations. These are the cognitive process which concerns in helping the students, academic rationalism which is subject centered, personal relevance which focuses on the needs of the students, and social adaptation where in the schools will help the students to adapt in the society and social reconstruction enables the student to improve the society, and lastly, technology used as an approach for the mastery of learning principles. While Anderson points out the significant dilemma in changing the curriculum in such a way the lack of teacher preparation to use new ways in teaching new curriculum. In this

chapter it tells also that the changed curriculum used to have short duration or life span. First, the life adjustment curriculum (1945-1952) used after the World War II. Life adjustment curriculum helps the students to adjust to adulthood demands and it was ended by its critics and the general public because they recognized its soft approach. Second, the structure of the discipline curriculum (1960-1970), this curriculum was used to compete with Soviet Unions Sputnik. It was ended for the reason of it had a great difficulty in understanding the concepts.