posner analysis Chapter 3

1. Dr Shabana
Dr Rizwana
The theoretical perspective
Chapter 3

2. What have been most
important perspective on
curriculum development ?

3. Traditional
Experiential
Behavioral
Structure of discipline
Constructivist

4. Each perspective is coherent set of
assumptions about education
How does learning occur ?
What objectives are worthwhile and how they
should be expressed?
What kind of contents are most important and
how should be organized ?
How should educational strategy be
evaluated?
What is and should be relationship between
school and society at large?

5. Traditional
• Education is process
• Focus is on transmission of knowledge
..Lectures.
• Examination.. Monitor and classify students as
they progress.
William
Haris
• Literacy is more than learning skill and
require continued transmission of
knowledge.
Hirsch.
• Knowledge
• Skill
• Core curriculum
Bennet

6. Experiantial
Every thing that happen to students influence their
lives
Learning is formal and informal
Education revolves around efforts to understand that
curriculum can be made in broadest possible way.
Therefore, curriculum is based on interest of students
and is subject to constant change and
reorganization.

7. Structure of discipline
Large gap between school
disipline and scholarly disciplines.
Need to reduce this gap.

8. Behavioral
Decide what the successful graduates are able to
do in very specific measurable terms
Analyze their behavior to identify pre-requisite
skills
Opportunity for the students to practice each skill
with feedback for mastery
Evaluating students’ performance

9. Constructivist
Construction of new knowledge on what is
already known
Use that knowledge in purposeful activities
requiring decision making, problem solving and
judgments