My Reflection Week 8

Reflection Week 8

Topic 7: Curriculum Theory and Practice

In this topic which explain under the article the advantages and disadvantages of four ways of approaches based on curriculum  theory and practice.

Four Ways:

• Curriculum as a body of knowledge to be transmitted

- The word 'syllabus' from the Greek Language

- In Malaysia education, the examination such as UPSR,  PMR, SPM, STPM, Practicum) to evaluate students development.

• Curriculum as product which is as an attempt to achieve certain ends in students as a product.

- The real purpose of education is to bring about significant changes in the students pattern of behavior. It is also will change children behavior such as from they did not know how to do something, then after the lesson they will know how the process.

Advantages:

- systematic of learning

- Also has considerable 'organizing power' which is children learn from the curriculum.

- Objectives of this ways or approaches is focus on change of children behavior.

Disadvantages:

- Almost in overall focus on children behavior

- Children develop their behavior through curriculum and difficult for them to explore.

- Successful or not depends on the children achievement 

- Difficulties of measurement the children behavior.

• Curriculum as a process

- Seen as the interaction between teachers, students and knowledge.

- It is also about what actually happens.

Stenhouse on Curriculum

- In planning:

• selection the content
• develop teaching strategy
• principles for the making of decisions about the sequence which is choose subject or content in thematic approaches.
• Diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of individual students and also taught how to enhance them after the analysis.

Empirical study 

• Evaluate progress and development of students.
• Evaluate the teachers for more masterly in course such as a training.
• Implementing curriculum in varying school context, students context and environment.
• Compare with other school for enhance the curriculum and how to achieve the goal.

Disadvantages of curriculum as a process:

• depending more in objectives
• place thinking at its core and treat students.
• High concern on exam and children assessment which will affect of children learning.
• Process learning depend on quality of teacher to achieve the goal.

• Curriculum as a Praxis which is select approach to implement the curriculum.

- The pedagogy goes beyond the learning experiences of the learner.

- Always identify children reflection.

• Curriculum in context

- What actually happens in classrooms, an ongoing social process comprised of the integration  of students, teachers, and knowledge  Milleu' (1990.5)

- In contrast, Stenhouse defines curriculum as the attempt do describes what happens in classrooms rather than what actually occurs.