Curriculum Verbatim: Educators, Philosophers & Curriculum

Curriculum Verbatim:

By Bronwen Abbattista Goddard EDU Program, Competency I

August 29, 2012

Educators, Philosophers & Curriculum  

What is curriculum?

“Curriculum is that process whereby the school facilitates the integration of the students’ experiences, planned and unplanned, in school and out, into a coherent framework having personal meaning for that student.”

From a discussion with Arnie Langberg, co-founder of the Harmony Project

In other words, curriculum can be just about anything.

How have people thought about curriculum and pedagogy since the beginning of education in this country?

Great question! Here’s what some of the most influential figures in education have to say…

1936

Schoolhouses are

the republican line

Of fortifications.

- Horace Mann

© CC BY-NC-SA 2010 Matt Shalvatis

The ideal aim of education

is creation of power

- John Dewey

of self-control.

© CC BY 2009 Maryam el7aRes

To be a teacher and educator one must

work with what is taking place in the depths of human

nature.

- Rudolf Steiner

© CC BY-NC-ND 2007 Plamen Stoev

1936

We become ourselves through others. - Lev Vygotsky

Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do. - Jean Piaget

1934

© CC BY-ND 2010 Wes Peck

Children who are free have much less hate to express than those who

are downtrodden. - A. S. Neill

© CC BY-NC 2008 Stuart Anthony

1921

We know how to find pearls in the shells of oysters, gold in the mountains and coal in the bowels of the earth, but we are unaware of the spiritual germs, the creative nebulae, that the child hides in himself.

- Maria Montessori © CC BY-NC-ND 2008 Chris JL

IF THE STRUCTURE DOES NOT PERMIT DIALOGUE CHANGED. THE STRUCTURE MUST BE

- Paulo Freire

© CC BY 2010 photosteve101

Thank you!

Attributions for slide 10 Left: © CC BY-NC-ND 2009 Fadzly Mubin Top right: © CC BY-NC-ND 2007 Mani Babbar Bottom right: © CC BY-NC-SA 2005 Phil Hilfiker

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