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Curriculum & Instruction

Curriculum and Instruction (C&I or Curriculum and Pedagogy or Curriculum and Teaching) is a field within education which seeks to research, develop, and implement curriculum changes that increase learner achievement in educational settings. The field focuses on how people learn and the best ways to educate. It is also interested in new trends in teaching and learning process. It tries to find answers to questions such as "why to teach", "what to teach", "how to teach" and "how to evaluate" in instructional process. Master's degrees and doctorates are offered at a number of universities.

History

John Franklin Bobbitt's work, The Curriculum (1918), is considered the first textbook on curriculum. Bobbitt is considered the founder of modern curriculum theory.

Ralph W. Tyler's Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction (1949) is later considered a seminal work on the subject. Tyler formalized his ideas on the presentation, analysis, and interpretation of curricula and instructional programs for educational institutions. Tyler's book was a bestseller and has since been reprinted in 36 editions, shaping the subject of curriculum and instructional design to this day.

Hilda Taba's thesis included two key ideas on the subject: first, how learning should involve dynamic, coherent, and interconnected processes, and second, how teachers should be responsible for delivering and evaluating the curriculum. She believed that educational curricula should focus on teaching students to think rather than simply repeating facts. After working with John Dewey, Benjamin Bloom, Ralph W. Tyler, Deborah Elkins, and Robert J. Havighurst, she wrote a major book on the subject, Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice (1962).

Concept of curriculum

Concept of curriculum theory

Curriculum studies

References

Sources

References

  1. [https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ujcp20 Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.]
  2. Kridel, Craig. (2010). "International Encyclopedia of Curriculum". SAGE Publications, Inc..
  3. (2018). "Curriculum theory". The Curriculum.
  4. Bobbitt, John Franklin. ''The Curriculum''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
  5. Wraga, William G.. (2017). "Understanding the Tyler rationale: ''Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction'' in historical context". Espacio, Teimpo y Educación.
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