Curriculum and course review.

 4 Aug 2019

Curriculum and course review

I can see there have been significant societal changes within the schooling system over the past decade, especially relating to societal behaviors, norms and morals. One reason for this may be due to enculturation, whereby cultures seem to diffuse and result in new collective groups. I believe that social change is not something the current younger generation is aware of, it is more the older crowd that experience or is aware of the changes. Adapting a curriculum one should take into consideration that educational needs change with the times, and technology seem to be in the forefront of this change.

Noddings, N.  (2007) point out that learning is usually aligned with more traditional   education approaches, whereby if the need arise, additional courses such as nutrition or sex ed. are added to the syllabus. Noddings is also of the opinion that students should be allowed to complete a syllabus that is more suited to their individual needs, further stating that it is prejudiced to force learners to complete curriculum subjects they dislike.

The needs of the current generation, according to Noddings, is very different from the past needs, whereby students were required to fulfil the economic aims of the country. Noddings would like us to consider meeting the future needs of learners we need to educate whole persons of a ‘post-industrial world’.

Perhaps learners are more concerned with their needs being met, rather than that of their nation. Noddings point out that large manufacturing plants is something of the past, and the new trend now is more focused on teamwork and problem solving. Interestingly enough, the review further points out that workers no longer devote their entire vocation to one establishment. Curriculum developers might be more concerned with the traditional learning subjects rather than focusing on development of an individual needs.