Updates on Curriculum in the Philippines

1. Lesson 1
Concepts, Nature and Purposes of Curriculum
(Curriculum Development)
Purita P.Bilbao, Ed.D.
Prepared by: IRENO A. ALCALA(SLP-B)
Professor: Dr. Alex Navarroza, Ph.D.
BISCAST

2.  Concepts of Curriculum
 Different Points of View
 Models of Curriculum Development
 Types of Curriculum Operating in School

3. 1. (Narrow Sense) A listing of subjects to be taught
in school.
2. (Broader Sense) Total learning experiences of
individuals not only in schools but in society as
well.
 In the Philippines, curricular renewal or reforms
were initiated by:
a. PCSPE (Phil.Commission to Survey Phil.Education),
b. SOUTELE (Survey of the Outcomes of Elementary
Education) &
c. PCER (Phil.Commission for Educational Reforms).
 NCBTS (National Competency-Based Teacher
Standards) became the anchor of reforms in
education from the basic to higher education.

4.  1. Traditional –body of subjects or subject matter
prepared by the teachers for the students to learn,
as in course of study & syllabus.
Noted traditionalists:
• Robert M. Hutchins – views curriculum as
“permanent studies” where the rules of grammar,
reading, rhetoric and logic and mathematics for
basic education are emphasized. (Basic education
should emphasize the 3Rs while college education
should be grounded on liberal education.)
• Arthur Bestor – as an essentialist, believes that the
mission of the school should be intellectual
training. It should focus on the fundamental
intellectual disciplines of grammar, literature and
writing, including mathematics, science, history and
foreign language.

5.  Robert Maynard
Hutchins (also Maynard Hutchins)
(January 17, 1899 – May 14, 1977),
was an American educational
philosopher, dean of Yale Law
School (1927–1929), and president
(1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–
1951) of the University of Chicago. He
was the husband of novelist Maude
Hutchins.
 Arthur Eugene Bestor (1879 – February
3, 1944) was an educator. He served
as the President of Chautauqua
Institution in Chautauqua, New
York from 1915 to his death in 1944

6. • Joseph Schwab – discipline is the sole source of curriculum.In
our education system, it is divided into chunks of knowledge
(subject areas in basic education: English,Mathematics, Science,
Social Studies and others/in college:
humanities,sciences,languages and many more)
• Academic discipline became the view of what curriculum is
after the cold war and the race to space.
• Schwab, a leading curriculum theorist coined the term
discipline as a ruling doctrine for curriculum development. It is
viewed as field of study, made up of its foundations
(philosophical, historical, psychological & social foundations.);
domains of knowledge as well as its research theories and
principles.
• Phenix – curriculum should consist entirely of knowledge which
comes from various discipline.
 *Curriculum as written documents/plan of action in
accomplishing goals.

7.  Joseph Schwabb(1909-1988) University
of Chicago professor of education and
natural sciences, Joseph Schwab was
the originator of The Practical, a
program for educational improvements
based on curriculum deliberations.
 Dr. Philip H. Phenix, the Arthur I. Gates
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and
Education at Teachers College,
Columbia University, whose study in the
fields of Mathematics, Physics,
Theology, Philosophy, and Education
informed a lifelong search for final
meaning.

8. 2. Progressive : To a progressivist, a listing of school subjects,
syllabi, course of study, and list of courses or specific
discipline do not make a curriculum. These can only be called
curriculum if the written materials are actualized by the
learner.
Noted Progressivists:
• John Dewey – total learning experiences of the
individual/experience and education/believes that reflective
thinking is a means that unifies curricular elements. (Thought
is not derived from action but tested by application)
• Caswell & Campbell – all experiences children have under the
guidance of teachers.
• Smith,Stanley & Shores – a sequence of potential experiences
set up in the schools for the purpose of disciplining children
and youth in group ways of thinking and acting.
• Marsh & Willis – experiences in the classroom which are
planned and enacted by the teacher, and also learned by the
students.

9.  John Dewey (/ˈduːi/; October 20, 1859 – June 1,
1952) was an American
philosopher, psychologist, Georgist,
and educational reformer whose ideas have been
influential in education and social reform. Dewey
is one of the primary figures associated with the
philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one
of the fathers of functional psychology. A Review
of General Psychology survey, published in 2002,
ranked Dewey as the 93rd most cited
psychologist of the 20th century. A well-
known public intellectual, he was also a major
voice of progressive
education and liberalism.Although Dewey is
known best for his publications about education,
he also wrote about many other topics,
including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics,
art, logic, social theory, and ethics. He was a
major educational reformer for the 20th century.

10.  Hollis Leland Caswell (October 22, 1901 – November
22, 1988) was an American educator who became an
authority on curriculum planning in schools. He
directed surveys of curriculum practices in
several school systems, and wrote several books on the
subject.
Caswell joined the editorial advisory board of the World
Book Encyclopedia in 1936, and became its chairman in
1948. In 1954, Caswell was appointed president
of Teachers College, Columbia University in New York
City, and served as its president until 1962.
From 1962 until 1966 Caswell served as general chairman
of editorial advisory boards for Field
Enterprises Educational Corporation.
Following his retirement as president at Teachers College,
Caswell continued at the College, being appointed to
the Marshall Field, Jr., Professorship of Education. He
remained in that chair until 1967.

11.  Doak Sheridan Campbell (1888-1973) was president of
Florida State College for Women, as it made the
transition from an all-female school under that name to
the coeducational Florida State University, between
1941 and 1957.
 B. Othanel Smith (1903- ), professor of education
(1945-1969) and department head (1967-1969),
University of Illinois, USA
 William Oliver Stanley, Jr. is a former professor in
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the
Urbana College of Education. He was one of the
founders of the social foundations of education, an
approach to the sociology of education.
Stanley was a former journalist and combatant for the
Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and a member of
the Communist Party of the USA in the 1930s.
After World War II, he became a member of the
early anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom,
but was shocked by later excesses of McCarthyism.
He was the author of "Education and Social Integration,"
Bureau of Publications, Teachers college Columbia
University, New York, 1953. In Chapter 10, Approaches
to a Disciplined Methodology of Discussion, and
Chapter 11, Method and the Democratic Ethic in the
Formulation of Public Policy, he anticipates the major
theme of Jurgen Habermas' major work The theory of
Communicative Action.

12.  J. Harlan Shores [born: Sept. 27, 1915,
Dearborn, MO; died: April 27, 1993,
Champaign, IL] served as professor of
education at the University of Illinois.
 Colin J. Marsh is the author of Becoming A
Teacher, Key Concepts for Understanding
Curriculum
 George Willis, Professor of Education at the
University of Rhode Island, author,
Curriculum: Alternative Approaches, Ongoing
Issues

13.  Curriculum-as dynamic process
 Development-changes which are systematic
 A change for the better-any
alteration,modification or improvement of
existing condition
 For positive changes, development should be
purposeful, planned and progressive.

14.  Ralph Tyler Model: Four Basic Principles
(Tyler’s Rationale)
1.What educational purposes should the school
seek to attain?
2.What educational experiences can be
provided that are likely to attain these
purposes?
3.How can these educational experiences be
effectively organized?
4.How can we determine whether these
purposes are being attained or not?

15.  Tyler’s model show that in curriculum
development, the following considerations
should be made:
(1) Purposes of the school
(2) Educational experiences related to the
purposes
(3) Organization of the experiences
(4) Evaluation of the experiences

16.  Ralph W. Tyler (1902–1994) was an
American educator who worked in the
field of assessment and evaluation. He
served on or advised a number of
bodies that set guidelines for the
expenditure of federal funds and
influenced the underlying policy of
the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965.
 Tyler chaired the committee that
developed the National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP). He has
been called by some as "the father of
educational evaluation and
assessment".

17.  Hilda Taba’s Linear Model – teachers who teach or
implement the curriculum should participate in
developing it. (Her advocacy is grassroots approach)
1. Diagnosis of learners needs and expectations of the
larger society
2.Formulation of learning objectives
3.Selection of learning content
4.Organization of learning content
5. Selection of learning experiences
6.Organization of learning activities
7.Determination of what to evaluate and the means of
doing it

18.  Hilda Taba (7 December 1902
in Kooraste, Estonia – 6 July 1967 in San
Francisco, California) was an architect, a
curriculum theorist, a curriculum reformer, and
a teacher educator.
 Taba was born in the small village of
Kooraste, Estonia. Her mother’s name was Liisa
Leht, and her father was a schoolmaster whose
name was Robert Taba. Hilda Taba began her
education at the Kanepi Parish School. She then
attended the Võru’s Girls’ Grammar School and
earned her undergraduate degree in English
and Philosophy at Tartu University.
 When Taba was given the opportunity to
attend Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, she
earned her Master’s degree. Following the
completion of her degree at Bryn Mawr College,
she attended Teachers College at Columbia
University.
 She applied for a job at Tartu University but
was turned down because she was female, so
she became curriculum director at the Dalton
School in New York City.

19.  Allan Glatthorn(2000) describes seven types of curriculum
operating in the schools.
(1) Recommended curriculum – proposed by scholars and
professional organizations
(2) Written Curriculum – appears in school, district, division or
country documents
(3) Taught Curriculum – what teachers implement or deliver in the
classrooms and schools
(4) Supported curriculum-resources-textbooks,computers,audio-
visual materials which support and help in the implementation
of the curriculum
(5) Assessed curriculum- that which is tested and evaluated
(6) Learned curriculum – what the students actually learn and
what is measured
(7) Hidden curriculum – the unintended curriculum

20.  Allan A. Glatthorn (1924–2007) was a major
contributor to the third and fourth editions; his
research used in the preparation of the first and
second editions of Writing the Winning Thesis or
Dissertation: A Step-by-Step Guide was the
foundation for the third edition.
 He was the Distinguished Research Professor of
Education (Emeritus) in the College of Education
of East Carolina University, where he advised
doctoral students, chaired dissertations, and
taught courses in supervision and curriculum. He
was formerly Professor of Education at the
Graduate School of Education of the University of
Pennsylvania.
 Prior to his university assignments, he was a high
school teacher and principal. In his work as a
professor, he chaired close to 100 dissertations.
He is the author of numerous professional books,
several of which have been published by Corwin.

21.  BEC (Basic Education Curriculum) Elementary
 SEDP (Secondary Education Development
Program) (under Pres. Fidel V. Ramos)(1993)
 UBD (Understanding by Design) (under PGMA) 2
yrs. only under DepEd Sec. Raul Roco – The
application, motivation, presentation have been
programmed. Teachers facilitate.
 RBEC (Revised Basic Education Curriculum)
(PGMA) adopted the UBD
 CLS (Cooperative Learning System)
 K to 12 (Kinder to G-12 ) with Basic Education
subjects (combined skills and knowledge)

22.  Mrs. Erlinda Alim, a Filipino language teacher
@Naga City School of Arts and Trades,
Sabang, Naga City
 Sir Wilmor Plopinio, Dean of Criminology, Pili
Capital College

25. Persons
Interviewed
Answer to Question: What is Curriculum to You?
Elementary Grades
Teacher
School Principal
College Teacher
Student Teacher
Non-education
college student

26. For questions and inquiries on CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT,
Please kindly ask our professor and read our official book and
additional materials online.