Name: Mary Guen Sukwahi Yr.

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Subject: The Teacher and The School Curriculum Instructor: Hannah Gay Amontos

Date: October 23, 2021

Contributions to Curriculum
Philosophical Educator Year Development
Franklin Bobbit 1876-1956 - Best known of his two
books The Curriculum
(1918) and How to Make a
Curriculum (1924)
- Bobbit along with the other
educators, they gave life to
what has come to be called
social efficiency movement
in education.
- His so called scientific
approach to curriculum
making that served as a
precedent for the work of
numerous educators.
- He was the first American
educators that define the
curriculum as an instrument
of social control or
regulation for addressing
the problems of modern
society.
Werrett Charters 1877-1952 - Develop the functional
theory of instruction that
focuses on how education
serves he needs of society
through development of
skills, encouraging social
cohesion and sorting of
students.
- He made his first book
entitled Methods of
Teaching that the function
of school subject matter
was “to satisfy needs and
solve problems” faced by
society.
- He developed the activity-
analysis approach to
curriculum construction.
- He also focused on
audiovisual education.
William Kilpatrick 1875-1952 - He made the article “The
Project Method”.
- He emphasizes that
projects placed on
individual learning on
reflective activity and on the
development of the whole
child.
- His work according to John

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 Dewey was a form of
notable and virtually unique
contribution to the
development of a school
society that is an organic
component of a living,
growing democracy.
Harold Rugg 1886-1960 - He is an American educator
who created and influential
social studies textbook
series, Man and His
Changing Society.
- He said that teachers plan
the curriculum in advanced.
- He also believed that the
best way to engage
students in social studies
was to approach the
material from a social-
justice perspective that
focuses the curriculum on
students’ investigations of
social problems.
Hollis Caswell 1901-1989 - He believed that the
curriculum should be
organized around social
functions.
- He claimed that
curriculum instructions
and learning are
interrelated.
- He pushed the idea that
curriculum is a set of
experiences further
emphasizes that the
subject matter should
be developed around
social functions and
students’ interests.
Ralph Tyler 1902-1994 - He was the father of
behavioural objectives.
- Believed that learning to
be a process through
which one attains new
patterns of behavior.
- His most useful work is
Basic Principles of
Curriculum and
Instruction (1949), a
course syllabus that
used by generations of
college students as a
basic reference for
curriculum and
instruction development
and that was
considered by many to
be strongest model for
curriculum
development.
Hilda Taba 1902-1967 - She contributed to the
theoretical and
pedagogical foundation
concept development
and critical thinking in
social studies
curriculum and helped
to lay the foundations of
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 student populations.
- Hilda Taba describes
the curriculum as
containing a statement
of the aims and of the
specific objectives.
- She promotes the
“Down-Top model” or
Grassroot approach.
- She also claimed that
the students are at the
fore front to the
curriculum.
Peter F. Oliva 1922-2012 - Olivas’ model is linear,
deductive, prescriptive
and combines a
scheme for curriculum
development and a
design for instruction.
- He describes curriculum
development as a
cooperative activity,
systematic and effective
if it is a comprehensive
process rather that
piecemeal.

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