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• John Dewey indicates that Democracy is the fair and the free learning tool that makes education as a necessity of life

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• If there is no democracy in education, there will be no communication .

• Democracy is a wonderful flower that promotes enhancing the learning environment.

• When democracy exists, transformational educators exist ,and generations of creative learners are ready to create.

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What does social change mean?

• Any event or action that affects a group of individuals that have share values or characteristics .

Federalpolicy Immigration

jobs

Health Safety

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• Must link their subject matter to what is going on in the outside world-environment, health globalization, or at least how these events are playing out locally?

How? How?

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Help students fit into the society as it is.

Help students fit into the society as it is.

encourage students focus on relationships by encouraging local self-sufficiency and mutual aids.

encourage students focus on relationships by encouraging local self-sufficiency and mutual aids.

Help the student develop knowledge and vision about the use and abuse of power in our lives for a better society

Help the student develop knowledge and vision about the use and abuse of power in our lives for a better society

Curriculum alternatives

CommunityService project

Integrated AcademicsWith workexperience

Explore Local health

problem

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The gap between teachers creates problems

Inequalities Improve human relation

Students will face difficulties if the teacher fails to understand their culture.

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• Although power relationships are central in deciding how curriculum is adapted to changing circumstances, one should NOT discount the nature of the circumstance and the initiative taken by individual teachers

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• A native American curriculum for survival.

Generosity in teaching about the natural life which save the English from starving.

• Reading and Latin grammar.

The curriculum focused on memorization of the rules of Latin grammar and how to read.

• Benjamin Franklin’s curriculum.• Focuses one how the students

expressed themselves by writing their own stories.

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• 19Th- century curriculum

Science versus classics ,Curriculum focused on how students learned to think through the study of math and grammar and how to develop a scientific view to meet the new challenges of the world.

• John Dewey’s curriculum

Focused on experiences as Dewey believed that students need to touch the experience in the outside world (Hands on)

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1-student choice and responsibilityTask is based on student needs and wishes.Students choose, design and evaluate.2-Local connectionIntegrates school with the community.3-Challenge Doing what the students know are not the goal

discovering and creating for an attempt to answer the essential questions.

4-Cooperation emphasis on Peer work and group work.

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• 5-Teacher role acts as a facilitator and guide• 6-Audience Could be other students ,a student needs to

serve .(Learning from each other)• 7-Subject matter Text book is regarded as a reference not a

content to cover.• 8-Evaluation It based on how a student have mastered the

objectives.• 9-Continuity A finished product is not the conclusion ,but the

starting point for a new series.

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• Your are hired as a new teacher at a poor school, what is your approach (According to John McNeil) to respond to the social change?

• A-Teach students to accept such environment.• B-criticize the environment for a better one.• C- encourage students focus on relationships by encouraging local self-sufficiency and

mutual aids.• E-All of the above• D- None of the above.

Please choose the best answer

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References

Herrington, J. & Oliver, R. (2002) Designing for reflection in online courses, in Quality Conversations, Proceedings of the 25th HERDSA Annual Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 7-10 July 2002: pp X313. Lambert, L. (2003). Leadership capacity for lasting school improvement. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.Dewey J (2001) Democracy and education: an introduction to the philosophy of education.