The document discusses four main ideologies of curriculum: 1. The Scholar Academic Ideology - Believes the purpose of education is to teach students accumulated knowledge from academic disciplines. The aim is to introduce students to these disciplines. 2. The Social Efficiency Ideology - Believes the purpose of schooling is to efficiently train students to meet the needs of society and function as contributing members. The first step is determining society's needs. 3. The Learner-Centered Ideology - Focuses on considering students' interests, readiness, experiences and learning styles in curriculum development. 4. The Social Reconstruction Ideology - Aims to use education to help students question and improve society and

1. The Ideology of a
Curriculum
Kathleen Paras
Discussant

2. IDEOLOGY
 is a collection of ideas, a comprehensive vision,
a way of looking things, or a worldview that
embodies the way a person or a group of
people believes the world should be organized
and function.
 It is “a certain ethical set of ideas, principles,
doctrines, myths and symbols of a social
movement, institution, class, or large group
that explains how society should work, and
offer some political and cultural blueprint for
certain social order”

3. CURRICULUM
IDEOLOGIES are the curriculum visions, philosophies,
doctrines, opinions, conceptual
frameworks, and belief systems of
educators

4. CURRICULUM
IDEOLOGIES
Refer to people’s endeavors while they
engage in curriculum activity or think
about curriculum issues.
Do not refer to all belief systems of
people, or even to all belief systems
related to curriculum.

5. FOUR
CURRICULUM
IDEOLOGIES
The Scholar Academic Ideology
The Social Efficiency Ideology
The LearnerCentered Ideology
The Social Reconstruction Ideology

6. The
Scholar
Academic
Ideology
Scholar academics believe that over the
centuries our culture has accumulated
important knowledge that has been
organized into academic disciplines
found in universities.

7. The
Scholar
Academic
Ideology
The purpose of education is to help
children learn the accumulated
knowledge of our culture: that of the
academic disciplines.

8. The
Scholar
Academic
Ideology
Scholar academics assume that the
academic disciplines, the world of
intellect, and the world of knowledge are
loosely equivalent.

9. The
Scholar
Academic
Ideology
An academic discipline is viewed as a
hierarchical community of people in
search of truth within one part of the
universe of knowledge.

10. The
Scholar
Academic
Ideology
The aim of education for Scholar
Academics is the extension of their
disciplines by introducing young people
to them.

11. The
Social
Efficiency
Ideology
Social efficiency advocates believe that
the purpose of schooling is to efficiently
meet the needs of the society by training
youth to function as future mature
contributing members of the society.

12. The
Social
Efficiency
Ideology
Social efficiency educator’s first job is to
determine the needs of society.The
things that will fulfill these needs are
called the terminal objectives of the
curriculum.

13. The
Social
Efficiency
Ideology
Social efficiency ideologists believe the
most efficient achievement of a
curriculum’s terminal objectives results
from applying the routines of scientific
procedure to curriculum making.

14. The
Social
Efficiency
Ideology
Three things that play an important role
in the Social Efficiency ideology are the
concept of learning (or change in human
behavior), the creation and sequencing of
learning experiences (the causes, actions,
and stimuli which lead to the desired
effects, reactions and responses) and
accountability to the client for whom
educators work.