Diana camasis
III- English A
Four Major Foundations Of Curriculum
A. Philosophical
This foundation of curriculum helps determine the driving purpose of education
as well as the roles of the various participants. It presents the manner of
thinking from which the goals of curriculum are created.
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So, in the philosophical foundation of curriculum, curriculum is created or will be
created through having a clear belief system. This belief system pertains to the
specific ideology or set of principles formed by school heads and/or teachers that
influences their choices and decisions in developing a curriculum such as how
they perceive and value education, how much they give importance to what the
students are learning, learners’ characteristics, as well as the methods and
approaches to be use in the teaching and learning procedure. The curriculum
developer’s educational philosophy is really vital and crucial as it will serve as a
guide towards creating a curriculum that will provide learners a quality education.
B. Historical
This foundation of curriculum deals with the past events which have led to
present trends of education. By analyzing past periods of curriculum, it is
possible to view and review the needed curriculum in terms of current and
future education needs.
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In this curriculum foundation, the changing, modifying, or developing of the
curriculum will be based on the principles, purposes, and contents of the past
curriculums. In this way, developers will be able to know what is needed and not
needed for the new curriculum as they already got to understand how effective
teaching strategies were, how useful the resources were,and many more. So
basically, history will serve as the guide of the developers in coming up with a
much improved curriculum that is not just modified according to the success and
failures of the past curriculums, but also, according to the need of time because it
is also important that a curriculum adapts to modernity for it to be successful and
effective.
C. Psychological
This foundation of curriculum provides information about the teaching and
learning process. It also seeks answers as to how a curriculum will be
organized to achieve students’ learning at the optimum level and what amount
of information they can absorb in learning the various contents of the
curriculum.
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In this curriculum foundation, a curriculum will be designed to support the
capacity and potentialities of every students. It means that it will consider how
and what the students are learning. We are all aware that every students have
different learning capacities, some might have a difficulty in performing or
answering a task while some can easily get it done. So, it is important that the
curriculum will be able to address these differences in order to improve the
learning process and promote educational success for all students.
D. Social
This foundation of curriculum is based on conditions, problems and needs of
society. It will serve as an agent for transmission of basic values of culture.
Moreover, it is designed to help prepare children for the global/world society.
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In the social foundation of curriculum, curriculum will be designed based on the
happenings in the society, as well as its culture. The principles, purposes, and
contents of the curriculum will all be modified considering the social setting.
School curriculum must address the changes, issues, and aspects of the society
that the students’ need to know and understand. They should make the
curriculum relevant to the social issues and progress so that students will be
educated of the reality of the world around them.