This presentation in part represents my research for Competency I as a licensure student at Goddard College in the Education program. Slide annotations are included in the History of School Reform Timeline I will also submit with my packet.

1. Curriculum Verbatim:
Educators, Philosophers & Curriculum
By Bronwen Abbattista
Goddard EDU Program, Competency I
August 29, 2012

2. What is curriculum?

3. “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

4. In other words,
curriculum can be just about anything.

5. How have people thought
about curriculum and pedagogy
since the beginning of education
in this country?

6. Great question!
Here’s what some of the most
influential figures in education
have to say…

7. 1936
Schoolhouses are
the republican line
Of fortifications.
- Horace Mann
© CC BY-NC-SA 2010 Matt Shalvatis

8. The ideal aim of education
is creation of power
of self-control.
- John Dewey
© CC BY 2009 Maryam el7aRes

9. To be a teacher
and educator one must
work with what is taking place
in the depths of human
nature.
- Rudolf Steiner
© CC BY-NC-ND 2007 Plam

10. 1936
We become ourselves through others.
- Lev Vygotsky

11. 1934
Intelligence
is what you use
when you don’t know
what to do.
- Jean Piaget
© CC BY-ND 2010 Wes Peck

12. Children who are free have much
less hate to express than those who
are downtrodden.
- A. S. Neill
© CC BY-NC 2008 Stuart Anthony

13. 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
© CC BY-NC-ND 2008 Chris JL

14. IF THE STRUCTURE
© CC BY 2010 photosteve101
DOES NOT PERMIT
DIALOGUE
THE STRUCTURE MUST BE
CHANGED. - Paulo Freire

15. Thank you!
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Attributions for slide 10
Left: © CC BY-NC-ND 2009 Fadzly Mubin
Top right: © CC BY-NC-ND 2007 Mani Babbar
Bottom right: © CC BY-NC-SA 2005 Phil Hilfiker