As important as it is for countries to set up their curriculum systems in response to various societal challenges, the key factor is: how does the curriculum system develop the society that is envisaged? – the society of liberated people…
Continue ReadingEisner (1985:62) critically discusses five basic orientations for the curriculum, namely the development of the cognitive process, academic rationalism, personal relevance, social adaptation and reconstruction, and the curriculum as technology. These orientations are fundamental to understanding and determining the goals…
Continue ReadingIvy Panda (2022) defines postmodernism as a word used by sociologists and other scholars to refer to the intelligence that has developed in the Western world. It is a view that encompasses a diverse range of ideas, practices, and critical…
Continue ReadingRadu, (2011:85) provides the background of progressivism as an educational movement that occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century as a reaction to the traditional school in the United States of America, seeking to establish an educational system adjusted…
Continue ReadingThe education systems of the world are designed to serve their respective nations for developmental and growth purposes. The socio-economic challenges faced by various nations are, in essence, questions that require answers. Challenges related to poverty, unemployment, human settlements, decentralization,…
Continue ReadingChazan (2022) defines education as the deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to transmit, provoke, or acquire knowledge, values, attitudes, skills, or sensibilities, as well as any learning that results from the effort. This definition establishes the educational process as an…
Continue ReadingCurriculum systems of the world are underpinned by various philosophical curriculum ideologies. These ideologies dictate the operations of the curriculum and its objectives and values. The curriculum ideology from which the curriculum is underpinned is the cornerstone of the curriculum…
Continue ReadingBusiness Insider (2017) published a famous letter on their blog in which the Singaporean principal encouraged parents to remember “amongst the students who will be sitting for the exams, there is an artist who isn’t required to understand Mathematics…There is…
Continue ReadingThe development of a new curriculum is an absolute necessity. If a new curriculum is implemented, it must be perfectly relevant and answer the question asked by societal advances. Every country’s curriculum relevance is automatically challenged by an ever-changing society.…
Continue ReadingThe curriculum revolution means the invention of a new curriculum system, the direct opposite of an existing operative curriculum. The invented curriculum system ought to open up opportunities and future possibilities for students. Upon implementation, the invented curriculum system has…
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