Significant contributions of the following to curriculum development:
JOHN DEWEY
- He believed that the child is an active
learner
- He saw learning by doing and
development of practical life skills as
crucial to children's education
ABRAHAM MASLOW
- Developed a hierarchy of needs to
explain human motivation that must
be met before people move up the
hierarchy to pursue more social,
emotional and self- actualizing needs.
FRANKLIN BOBBIT
- Advocated the practice of analyzing
the activities involved in discreet
academic subjects and using that
analysis to establish specific teaching
objectives.
- He looked at what specific activities
experts in a subject engaged in and
made these activities driving forces
behind the curriculum design.
DANIEL GOLEMAN
- Educators now recognize that emotional
intelligence is every bit as important to
learning as intellectual prowess or IQ.
As a result, tens of thousands of schools
throughout the world currently
incorporate “social and emotional
learning” in their curricula.
WILLIAM KILPATRICK CARL ROGERS
- Developed the Project Method for - Core theorists of the humanistic
early childhood education, which was
a form of Progressive education that
organized curriculum and classroom
activities around a subject’s central - He applied his “client-centered”
theme.
- He believed that the role of a teacher
LEV VYGOTSKY
- Contributed a wealth of ideas to
early childhood education
- He has shown how children’s efforts
to understand the world around
them, working in concert w/
teachers’ sensitive, responsive
interactions, rouses their young
minds to life.
HILDA TABA
- Contribute to the theoretical and
pedagogical foundations of concepts
development and critical thinking in
social studies curriculum.
RALPH TYLER
- In the late 1960s Tyler took on the
job of designing
the assessment measures for the
National Assessment of Education
Progress (NAEP), which are
federally mandated criterion-
reference tests used to gauge national
achievement in various disciplines
and skill domains.
ALVIN TOFFLER
- Focused on technology and its impact
which he termed “ information
overloaded”
paradigm whose work began in
psychotherapy, w/ later application
to the educational process.
approach to therapy interactions
between teachers and students,
 should be that of a “guide” as resulting in a strongly student-
opposed to an authoritarian figure. centered approach to education.

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