Unit 4

CURRICULUM
CHANGE
 Ladrillono,
Gelshryb Althe

Landicho,
Merill Rose

Baranda,
Rolando

Lagunday,
Herida, Khenna
Rafael
Objectives
Objectives  Identify the Bases of the Curriculum
Change.
 Enumerate the Principles of Curriculum
Change.
 Understand the application of theories and
paradigms in Curriculum Development.
 Contextualize Curriculum as Learning.
 Generate ideas in improving change
management.
BASES ON CURRICULUM
CHANGE
 Some subjects need less
updating as far as
information is concerned.

IT IS Most updating of
curriculum is going to
OUTDATED occur in the history, science
and technology fields,
where things are constantly
changing.
 The biggest reason for a
THE DEMAND change in education based
FOR on demand for knowledge
lies in the fact that the
KNOWLEDGE world around us is always
CHANGES changing.
KEEPING Another reason why
curriculum needs to change
KIDS is because teachers have a
lot of competition for their
ENGAGED students attention.
 Curriculum needs to
change because technology
TECHNOLOGY advances that have occured
ADVANCES outside of the classroom
have a huge impact on
what happens inside the
classroom.
 Life changes just a bit
every single day. In fact,
OUR WORLD life changes by the
(AND moment.

WORLDVIEW)
CHANGES
 PRINCIPLES OF
CURRICULUM CHANGE
 Pasi
Sahlberg
Seven Principles of I.
implementing a new Making sense of
curriculum in the why a new
context of curriculum curriculum is
change. necessary;
 II.
Understanding
the change
process;
III.
Capacity-
building;
 IV.
Developing
cultures of
learning;
V.
Developing
cultures of
evaluation;
 IV.
Developing
leadership for
change;
VII.
Utilizing ideas
that already
exist in schools;
THEORIES AND
PARADIGMS
 A curriculum theory is a set of
related educational concepts that
affords a systematic and
illuminating perspective of
curricular phenomena.
 WHAT ARE DIFFERENT
CURRICULUM THEORIES?

THEORIES

According to Dr. G R Angadi there

are four theories in Curriculum
Development.
 Believe that
education reforms
Social
changes society Meliorist’s
for the better. Theory
Jhon Dewey’s
Theory
focuses on the idea that the
education should incorporate how
a child’s view his/her world.
 FOUR INS
INCKS TO
1. Expressive 3. Artistic

2. Constructive 4. Social
• It focuses on how the
teachers educate the Social
learners according to
their proficiency. Efficiency
• Each student is given
an IQ test. Theory
Developmentalism
Theory
• Children are educated according
to their emotional and
behavioral quantities.
• Children’s characteristics rather
than their IQ are the basis of the
curriculum.
 A paradigm is a connected set of
ideas, values, and rules that
governs the conduct of an inquiry
and, the ways in which data are
analyzed and interpreted.
 QUESTIO
What
considerations How do we
are most think about

STIONS
relevant when
these
we frame a
considerations?
curriculum?
THREE MAJOR METHODS
IN CURRICULAR
PARADIGMS
The Practical
Paradigm
The curriculum is defined as continuous interaction
among teacher, learner, subject matter, and
environment.

The
Emancipatory
Paradigm
Education should reconstruct society.
The Empirical
Paradigm
This paradigm is popularly known as Tyler Rationale
or Empirical/Analytic paradigm.

Four parameters questions to

develop a particular curriculum:
i) What educational purposes should curriculum aim
for and try to attain?
ii) How can learning experiences be selected to meet
the educational purposes identi ed?
iii) How should learning experiences be organised for
effective instruction?
iv) How can the effectiveness of learning experiences
be evaluated?
CURRICULUM CHANGE
AS LEARNING
Curriculum Change
A learning process for teachers and for
their schools. Good understanding of
change and clear conception of
curriculum are necessary conditions for
improved implementation of new
curriculum into practice.
Curriculum Change
as Learning
1. Successful curriculum
development requires better use
of ‘change knowledge’.
Curriculum Change
as Learning
2. Re‐conceptualizing
curriculum.
Curriculum Change
as Learning
3. Changing the way teachers teach
and students learn requires specific
approaches.
 MANAGING
CURRICULUM
CHANGE
 School
School
SUCCESSFUL School
STRATEGIES
Learning and Skills Development Agency
 Make
Giving high priority to
curriculum change is Curriculum
the first step to
creating an Change a
environment where
effective change can High Priority
take place.
 Provide
Support to
Give praise and take
time to listen to Achieve
people. Success
 Plan and
Curriculum change is Resource for
most effective when it
is planned. This
Effective
includes costing the Curriculum
process in terms of
resources and time. Change
 Provide
Effective
Effective leadership is
key to creating a Leadership to
culture of change
management drive Change
within an organisation.
 Create a Shared
Set up working groups
Approach as a
that have a clear Vehicle
remit, reporting
and accountability
for Effective
lines. Change
 Recognise and
Using the expertise of
staff can have positive Use Staff
effects on instigating Contributions
change and can
improve staff morale.
It is vital that staff who
are ultimately
Gain the
responsible for Confidence of
curriculum
change have Staff
professional credibility
in the eyes of teaching
staff.
 Deal with Negative
Provide staff with Perceptions of
appropriate Change
information to keep
them fully informed.
and Professional
Development
 Use
Provide staff rooms
where colleagues can Accommodation to
meet as course teams promote
to discuss curriculum Teamwork
change and interpret
them at a local level.
 Recognise and
Appoint a staff
Deal effectively
development manager with Staff wants
with a delegated and needs
budget linked to
curriculum change.
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
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