Curriculum Verbatim: Educators, Philosophers & Curriculum

Curriculum Verbatim:

By Bronwen AbbattistaGoddard 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 mostinfluential figures in education have to say…

1936

Schoolhouses are the

republican line Of fortifications.

- Horace Mann

The ideal aim of education

is creation of power

- John Dewey

of self-control.

To be a teacher and educator one must

work with what is taking place in the depths of human

nature.

- Rudolf Steiner

1936

We become ourselves through others. - Lev Vygotsky

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

- Jean Piaget

1934

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

downtrodden.

- A. S. Neill

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

IF THE STRUCT

URE

DOES NOT

PERMITDIALOGU

ECHANGED.

THE STRUCTURE MUST BE - Paulo Freire