What role does philosophy serve in curriculum design? 2.What type of curriculum is referred to in the Silberman’s (1970) quote on p. 41: . . . And children are taught a host of lessons about values, ethics, morality, character, and conduct every day of the week, less by the conduct of the curriculum than by the way schools are organized, the ways teachers and parents behave, the way they talk to children and each other, the kinds of behavior they approve or reward and the kinds they disapprove and punish. These lessons are far more powerful than verbalizations that accompany them and that they frequently controvert. (p. 9) 3.In answer to the questions for each sub-heading below, describe how each of the following philosophies (perennialism, idealism, realism, experimentalism, and existentialism) answers the questions, and provide an example of a classroom practice that reflects those beliefs). a.Perennialism: i.Ontology (What is real? What is not real?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ii.Epistemology (On what do we base our knowledge of the world and our understanding of truth? Does our knowledge derive from divine revelation, from ideas latent in our minds, from empirical evidence, or from something else?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iii. Axiology (What is good, beautiful, right and wrong?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iv. Classroom Practice _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ b. Idealism: i. Ontology (What is real? What is not real?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ii. Epistemology (On what do we base our knowledge of the world and our understanding of truth? Does our knowledge derive from divine revelation, from ideas latent in our minds, from empirical evidence, or from something else?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iii. Axiology (What is true, good, beautiful, right and wrong?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iv. Classroom Practice _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ c. Realism: i. Ontology (What is real? What is not real?) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ii. Epistemology (On what do we base our knowledge of the world and our understanding of truth? Does our knowledge derive from divine revelation, from ideas latent in our minds, from empirical evidence, or from something else?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iii. Axiology (What is true, good, beautiful, right and wrong?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iv. Classroom Practice _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ d. Experimentalism/Progressivism: i. Ontology (What is real? What is not real?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ii. Epistemology (On what do we base our knowledge of the world and our understanding of truth? Does our knowledge derive from divine revelation, from ideas latent in our minds, from empirical evidence, or from something else?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iii. Axiology (What is true, good, beautiful, right and wrong?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iv. Classroom Practice _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ e. Existentialism: i. Ontology (What is real? What is not real?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ii. Epistemology (On what do we base our knowledge of the world and our understanding of truth? Does our knowledge derive from divine revelation, from ideas latent in our minds, from empirical evidence, or from something else?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iii. Axiology (What is true, good, beautiful, right and wrong?) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ iv. Classroom Practice _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Text: Curriculum development: A Guide to practice. 9th edition Wiles, J. & Bondi, J. (2011) **I DON’T HAVE THE TEXT.
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