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JULY 2016

Typology of Curriculums

In this workshop, the learners:

Will learn to define eight types curriculums. Will learn conceptions of educational coponents of a curriculum.

Inquirer Curriculum

This kind of curriculum provides all the constructive material and authentic learning environments for reaching a wonderer condition, i.e. the point of asking questions and developing hypotheses.The graduates of ICs are working as researchers, following scientific procedures and science processes.

Inquirer curriculum conceptions of

Conception of LearningLearning is constructing and deconstruction of knowledge for making and extracting meaning of the surrounding world. Conception of StudentStudent is an active constructor, reformer and transformer of knowledge. Conception of Teaching and learning processTeaching and learning are fully interactive and interlaced activities for facilitating building new knowledge, skills and attitudes. Conception of EvaluationEvaluation is a metacognition, self-evaluation, and peer evaluation tool.

Neutral Curriculum

A neutral curriculum is an impartial curriculum. This kind of curriculum just tries to present scientific, historical and social facts and act as an absolute sciences agent.The graduates of the NCs are disarmed people with changing and colorless ideologies.

Neutral curriculum conception of

Conception of Learning Learning is a process for gathering, memorizing and recalling

scientific and non-scientific information. Conception of Student Students are absorbers and keepers of attained information. Conception of Teaching and learning processTeaching and learning is taken place separately by students and teachers and its final destination is learning and recalling for tests. Conception of Evaluation Evaluation as a process facilitates recalling information and

marking their correctness or falseness.

Enabler Curriculum

The enablers curriculums are trying to create authentic learning environments for leading learners to activate their potentials.The ECs are recognizing students natural talents and their capacities for development.The graduates of ECs are those who have found their ways to approach their life on the basis of their developed capacities.

Enabler curriculum conception of

Conception of LearningLearning is a process and an opportunity for learning and developing students’ potentials. Conception of StudentStudents is an individual who can develop his/her potential for getting competences in line with the targeted goals and objectives. Conception of Teaching and learning processTeaching and learning is conceptualizing as the cooperative processes that students are their principal players. Conception of EvaluationEvaluation refers to an informing actions that are taking by teachers and students.

Repressor Curriculum

The repressor curriculum (RP) acts as a boycott agent. This kind of curriculum is against any sort of creativity, out of box thinking, and awkwardly freedom of speech. The RP is a brainwasher curriculum that targets to train narrow-minded individuals with a great rigidity in mind and behaviors.

Repressor curriculum conception of

Conception of LearningLearning encompasses some processes that are suitable for remembering and recalling different kinds of disciplined knowledge and indoctrinated attitudes. Conception of StudentStudent is recognized as critical individual for carrying and implementing predetermined rigid knowledge of an engineered curriculum. Conception of Teaching and learning processTeachers are agents of a centralized curriculum who try to pour their and the curricular knowledge in the brains of students. The best learner is one who loyal to the teachers and curriculums. Conception of EvaluationThe major role of learning evaluation is getting the conveyed information to students.

Oppressor Curriculum

An oppressor curriculum diminishes education into training. An OP is an exact exemplar of fostering learners as slaves. The major drawbacks with the OPs are restricting critical thinking. The OP represents fate and destiny-led learning programs.Graduates of the OCs are a great believers to predetermined destiny that one cannot change it.

Oppressor curriculum conception of

Conception of LearningLearning is as a tool for getting opportunity for training a great follower. Conception of StudentStudents is a believer who prefer to obey the leader and his/her will. Learners appreciate the curriculum as a sort of their leader's behests. Conception of Teaching and learning processThe processes of teaching and learning are planning by the teachers. The teachers are playing as the symbols of the rulers. Conception of EvaluationEvaluation is a tool for controling the states of students and the extent of obedience from the power.

Transgressor Curriculum

Transgressor curriculum violates learners’ personalities and identities. This curriculum do not introduce alternative for the destructed identity and personality.The graduates of the TCs are those who are alienated and cognitively dissociated.

Transgressor curriculum conception of

Conception of LearningLearning is a process for absorbing the delivered knowledge, procedures and skills. Conception of StudentStudent is a subject for transforming for an entity that its form and structure are determined or illustrated in the curriculum. Conception of Teaching and learning processTeaching is a one-way communication that repeatedly transfers facts and concepts to the learner and learner, in turn, memorize the delivered data. Conception of EvaluationEvaluation mostly is using for to major purposes, checking for transferred data, and verifying destruction of learners’ personality.

Narrator Curriculum

This kind of curriculum describes phenomena, entities, and facts without any partiality. Learners of the narrator curriculum are free to form their own ideologies and their conceptions of the world.Graduates of the NCs are acting the value free people.

Narrator curriculum conception of

Conception of LearningLearning a process for recognizing, identifying, wondering and reporting facts about the events, objects and concepts. Conception of StudentStudents are accepted as the observer and reporter of the specifications of their surrounding world. Conception of Teaching and learning processTeaching and learning are seen as the interactive processes that are creating opportunities authentic observation and learning for presenting. Conception of EvaluationEvaluation is a strategy to verify students’ observation and conception of the provided situation and learning experiences.

Blandisher Curriculum

This type of curriculum is an unethical with a totalitarian plan. Blandisher curriculum tries to instruct people to obey the rulers and pray for them. One of the basic and instrumental strategies of this type of curriculums is institutionalization of inferiority.Graduates of blandisher curriculum are sycophantic, flatter, and obsequiousetic.

Blandisher curriculum conception of

Conception of LearningLearning is a process that helps student to reach to the point of a real mind-dependent person or mental slavery. Conception of StudentStudent is conceptualized as a prayer and blandisher of spiritual and rulers powers. Conception of Teaching and learning processThe processes of teaching and learning are mostly forming in the affective domain for the purpose of reaching to the point of pure dependent mind. Conception of EvaluationEvaluation is creating a setting for confession. Students in the context of a blandisher curriculum must show how they are dependent to the dominant ideology or the rulers in power.