ACTIVITY 2.2 RETELLING PROPONENTS’ BIOGRAPHIES
HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF CURRICULUM
He became famous for
developing the modern concept
of "objective analysis," a
forerunner of job and task
analysis.
-was born near English, Indiana
on February 16, 1876 died on 7
March 1956 at Waldron,
Indiana, United States
-son of James and Martha
Bobbitt
-
-started the curriculum
development movement.
-Objectives and activities should
group together when tasks are
clarified.
FRANKLIN
BOBBIT
he teach first in several rural schools in
Indiana and later at the Philippine
Normal School in Manila.
-best known for two books, The
Curriculum (1918) and How to
Make a Curriculum (1924)
-earned his undergraduate
degree at Indiana University
and then went on to teach
-received his doctorate at
Clark University in 1909
- he joined the faculty of the University of
Chicago, where he remained until his
retirement in 1941
"Education is a shaping
process as much as the
manufacture of steel
rails."
-His most famous surveys were a 1914
evaluation of the San Antonio Public
Schools and a 1922 study of the Los
Angeles City Schools' curriculum.
-She contributed to the
theoretical and pedagogical
foundations of curriculum
development and critical
thinking in social studies
curriculum.
most-significant
contributors to the fields
of intergroup education
and curriculum design
-She helped lay the foundation
for diverse student population.
born December 7,
1902, Kooraste,
Russian Empire [now
Estonia]—died July 6,
1967, Burlingame,
California, U.S.),
Estonian-born
American educator
was introduced to
Progressive education
ideas at Tartu
University by her
philosophy professor in
the period following
the Russian Revolution
-born in a small village in
southeastern Estonia
HILDA
TABA
-She pursued her interests
in Progressive education
and the relationship
between democracy and
curricula at Bryn Mawr
College (M.A. 1927)
-Teachers College,
Columbia University
(Ph.D.1932)
"All curricula, no
matter what their
particular design, are
composed of certain
elements.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF CURRICULUM
- championed the Connectionism
Theory
best-known for his Afamous puzzle
box experiments with cats which
led to the development of his law of
effect.
-He proposed the three laws of
learning:
- Law of Readiness
- Law of Exercise
born on August 31, 1874,
Williamsburg, Massachusetts,
U.S.—died August 9, 1949,
Montrose, New YorK
EDWARD LEE
THORNDIKE
- Law of Effect
-American psychologist whose
work on animal behaviour and
the learning process led to the
theory of connectionism
-graduated from Wesleyan
University in 1895.
-he studied animal behaviour with William
James at Harvard University (1895–97)
-professor of educational psychology at
Columbia from 1904 to 1940
"Colors fade, temples
crumble, empires fall, but
wise words endure."
He proposed the Hierarchical
Learning Theory. Learning
follows a hierarchy.
well-known for his sophisticated
stimulus-response theory of eight
kinds of learning.
born August 21, 1916, in North
Andover, Massachusetts and died
on April 28 2002 AT Signal
Mountain, Tennessee, United
States
He introduced taking in the
formulation of objectives.
ROBERT GAGNE
- in 1972 Robert Gagné developed his
taxonomy of learning
-professor of psychology and educational
psychology
-professor in the Department of Educational
Research at Florida State University in
Tallahassee starting in 1969.
-an educational psychologist
who pioneered the science of
instruction in the 1940s.
-His book "The Conditions of
Learning," first published in 1965,
identified the mental conditions
that are necessary for effective
learning.
"Feelings and emotions
developed from positive
and negative
experiences"
SOCIAL FOUNDATION OF CURRICULUM
Considered two fundamental
elements—schools and civil society—
to be major topics needing attention
and reconstruction to encourage
experimental intelligence and
plurality.
most famous for his role in what is
called progressive education
Born Oct. 20, 1859, Burlington, Vt.,
U.S.—died June 1, 1952, New York,
N.Y.
-American philosopher and
educator
JOHN DEWEY
- pioneer
in functional psychology, and a
leader of the progressive
movement in education in
the United States.
-he began
teaching philosophy and
psychology at the University of
Michigan
- he joined the faculty of
philosophy at the University of
Chicago, where he further
developed his
progressive pedagogy in the
university’s Laboratory Schools.
"Education is not
preparation for life;
education is life itself"
known for his works discussing
modern technologies, including the
digital revolution and the
communication revolution, with
emphasis on their effects on cultures
worldwide
born on October 4, 1928, in
New York City, and raised in
Brooklyn. He was the son of
Rose (Albaum) and Sam
Toffler, a furrier, both Jewish
immigrants from Poland
-founder of the philosophical
movement known as pragmatism
ALVIN
TOFFLER
-associate editor of "Fortune magazine"
- first major book about the
future, Future Shock, became a
worldwide best-seller and has sold over
6 million copies.
-Believed that knowledge should
prepare students for the future.
-Foresaw schools and students
work creatively, collaboratively,
and independent of their age
-graduated from New York
University in 1950 as an English major
-He founded Toffler Associates,
a management consulting company
"The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those
who cannot read and
write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn,
and relearn."
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION OF CURRICULUM
Great proponent of
Perennialism
To educate the rational person;
to cultivate the intellect
born Jan. 17, 1899, Brooklyn,
N.Y., U.S.—died May 14,
1977, Santa Barbara, Calif.
- professor of Philosophy at
Columbia University.
MORTIMER
ADLER
-he became president of the University
of Chicago;
hairman of the Board of Editors
of Encyclopædia Britannica and a
director for Encyclopædia Britannica,
Inc.
"Education implies teaching.
Teaching implies knowledge.
Knowledge is truth. The truth
everywhere is the same.
Hence, education should be
everywhere the same."
e was editor in chief of the 54volume Great Books of the Western
World (1952) and coeditor, from 1961
to 1977, with Mortimer J. Adler, of an
annual, The Great Ideas Today.
To promote intellectual growth of
learners to become competent
known as the father of
“Essentialism,
born in 15 March 1874
at Detroit, Michigan, United States
and died on died July 1, 1946,
New York City
-In April 1938, he published
the Essentialist's Platform, in
which he outlined three major
points of essentialism:
-he wrote the Paidea Proposalseeks to establish a course of
study that is general, not
specialized; liberal not
vocational; humanistic, not
technical.
WILLIAM
BAGLEY
-an American educator and editor. A critic
of pragmatism and progressive education,
he advocated educational "essentialism
-he enrolled in 1891 in the Michigan
Agricultural College .
-In 1895, he graduated with a bachelor's
degree, and started to work as a teacher
in a small school in Garth, Michigan.
"Essentialists hope that when students leave
school, they will possess not only basic skills
and an extensive body of knowledge, but
also disciplined, practical minds, capable
of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real
world.