The document provides an overview of major curriculum designs, including subject-centered designs like the subject design and broad-fields design, learner-centered designs focused on the child like the child-centered design and experience-centered design, and problem-centered designs addressing life problems and social issues like the life-situation design and transformatory design. Each design is described in terms of its emphasis, underlying philosophy, source or focus, and prominent spokesperson or champion. The table effectively summarizes and compares different approaches to curriculum design.
The document provides an overview of major curriculum designs, including subject-centered designs like the subject design and broad-fields design, learner-centered designs focused on the child like the child-centered design and experience-centered design, and problem-centered designs addressing life problems and social issues like the life-situation design and transformatory design. Each design is described in terms of its emphasis, underlying philosophy, source or focus, and prominent spokesperson or champion. The table effectively summarizes and compares different approaches to curriculum design.
The document provides an overview of major curriculum designs, including subject-centered designs like the subject design and broad-fields design, learner-centered designs focused on the child like the child-centered design and experience-centered design, and problem-centered designs addressing life problems and social issues like the life-situation design and transformatory design. Each design is described in terms of its emphasis, underlying philosophy, source or focus, and prominent spokesperson or champion. The table effectively summarizes and compares different approaches to curriculum design.
Philosophy SUBJECT-CENTERED Subject Design Separate subject Essentialism Science, Knowledge Harris, Hutchins Perennialism Broad-Fields Design Interdisciplinary subjects, Essentialism Science, Knowledge Broudy, Dewey scholarly discipline Progressivism Correlation Design Separate subject, disciplines Progressivism, Knowledge Alberty, Alberty linked but identities maintained Essentialism LEARNER-CENTERED Child-Centered Design Child’s needs and interest Progressivism Child Dewey, Kilpatrick, Parker Experience-Centered Child’s experiences and needs Progressivism Child Dewey, Rugg, Shumaker Design Humanistic Design Experiences, interest, needs of Reconstructionism Psychology, Child, Combs, Abraham Maslow, a person and group Existentialism Society Carl Rogers PROBLEM-CENTERED DESIGN Life- situation design Life (social) Problem Reconstructionism Society Spencer Transformatory (or Child, focus on society and the Open system Society Slattery becoming ) change world, all real of culture Post Modernism Reconstructionist design Child, the teacher, the world Open system Post Modernism Roth