2. *Defined as a certain approach or theory that is used in
the development and enactment of the curriculum.
*It is also defined as teacher belief about the education
goal and the curriculum components such as objectives,
content teaching, learning, activities and assessment
methods.
Definition of
Curriculum Conception
3. 1. Academic Rationalist Conception
2. Cognitive Processes Conception
3. Humanistic Conception
4. Social Reconstructionist Conception
5. Technological Conception
6. Electric Conception
6 Types of curriculum
conception
4. ACADEMIC Rationalist
Conception
-Defined as an orientation to curriculum that honors
the role of traditional content in the development of
the rational human mind.It stresses the importance of
different bodies of knowledge, known as disciplines or
subject area, as the focus of the curriculum.Viewed
education as the basic fields of study and academic
disciplines.
5. COGNITIVE PROCESSES
CONCEPTION
- Seeks to develop a repertoire of cognitive skills that are
applicable to wife range of intellectual problems. The
subject matters are instruments or tools for developing
these cognitive skills that are lasting in the lives of
individuals.
6. Humanistic
Conception
-Stresses the idea that curriculum or education is an instrument for
developing the full potentials of individuals.It seeks to help
individuals discover and develop their unique identities. It stresses that
the curriculum should focus on the needs and interests of individuals.
7. SOCIAL
RECONSTRUCTIONIST
CONCEPTION
Views the school or schooling as na agency for
social change. Hence, stresses that curriculum
should respond to the different needs, issues,
problems and demands of the society.
8. Technological
conception
Is preoccupied with the development of means to
achieve curriculum or educational goals. It views
schooling as a complex system that can be analyzed
into its constituent components.
- Examines how a project can be concretized or how
it is possible to conceive, to produce operative ideas
that can be directly use.
9. Is where curriculum workers find
themselves aligning their ideas with two
or more curriculum. Hence, this
curriculum conception reiterates the
realities in curriculum development
that each of the curriculum conceptions
is to be considered and is influential to
a certain extent designing the
curriculum.
ELECTRIC
CONCEPTION
