Importance Of Curriculum Foundation

1. Introduction

Curriculum foundation refers to the factors that influence the minds of curriculum developers to make a decision on what to be included in the curriculum and its structure. There are certain factors which provide background information on which the curriculum developers depend to make the decisions. They may be philosophical foundations which based on nature and value systems. Psychological foundation which is based on the learners and learning theory influences the curriculum and sociological and cultural foundation which influences the curriculum from the social life, society and its culture.

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Apart from the above the cultural beliefs, social expectations, communal values, norms traditions also influence the curriculum. Society is group of people or communities or nations which constitutes a cultured mankind. Society is a general body of people, communities or nations constituting civilized mankind. Therefore, curriculum should be designed in the radiance of inclination from the development of society. Any curriculum’s merit comes from the reflection it shows from the local culture and the social needs in which it is being developed. It is the way the people live in the society, their intellect, obedience, training which should reflect in the way curriculum is designed.

The curriculum developers should take the moral, cultural, creative development from the society.

Cultural, social changes and anticipation of the institution will affect the accomplishment of the curriculum. But the major changes in the society like unemployment, social values, economic growth, and employer, community and family institutional relationships. This is affected by the educational requirements and confrontations. The influences of government policies, external stakeholders and research also factors affecting the curriculum through sociological foundations.

2. The theories of Curriculum drawn by the influence of Social

The teachers can and will use a general process while teaching and use a democratic language in the mother tongue of the students. But in the standpoint of a sociological foundation, the knowledge should be cognitive and experimental. Though the knowledge is a student’s personal experience and comes from their own attributes learnt, the promoters of this theory have concerns about the knowledge the society possess.

In the social theory view the process of learning is beyond control of student’s interaction, but it starts when the student makes effort to develop the environment. The learner is treated as an activist of society and a change agent. The teachers should get prepared to participate in this social practice to play a role as a provider than a game changer. The supporters of this foundation theory consider teachers as partners. The teacher is the one who is leading the project, and the curriculum which is implemented lays emphasis on the social experiences with challenge based techniques.

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