curriculum ideologies

-     -The school academic Ideology: the aim is that the children accumulate knowledge of our cultures: that of the academic disciplines. The teacher have to transmit the discipline to the children for their create new knowledge  

              Example, an mathematician going to be our teacher of mathematic and not a teacher that studied education.   

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´-   -The social efficiency ideology: the aims are prepare at the children for work life, in such a way that the children have to study and be better for continue. The world changes and needs efficient people

               Example: the engineer that pass 90% of examination  

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-   -The learner centerede Ideologythe aims is that the child learns a basic knowledge as harmony, moral values, human values,…

The teacher focus on the child and the child decides what does he want learn and the teacher guides her on her learning. The schools try that the child grows and learns with the experience because experience is based of reality

-     -The social reconstruction Ideology: the aims are change the society, avoid the inequality for offer the core idea of satisfaction for all members. In the school deal meter as problems in house, problems, society problems,..

I agree wih the social reconstrution ideology because  They assume that the purpose of education is to facility the construction of a new ad more just society that offers maximum satisfaction to all of its members

I learn that there are different ideologies about learning and all this is new for me.

summary

During all this class, I have changed my point of view about the idea of teaching, as in reality is more complicated than it seems because of teaching have a lot of aims and goals, trying to encourage many of the skills. Also, we have seen how in the curriculum comes across a lot more rule, with all the skills, aims, method of learning, method of teaching the teacher has to consider in order to carry out a good education.

Also, I have realised  and I reflected as many times we do not know whats is to teach, that is to learn, that is, the teaching,... because are theorical concepts that we see in the practicum, but when it comes time to do definition is more difficult because of have a lot of themes very important like development, learning and the acquisition of knowledge of the children

Learning theory

We have learned that there are different learning theories: behaviorism, constructivism and social constructivism.

The summary of their theories is:

	BEHAVIOURISM	CONSTRUCTIVISM	SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
KNOWLEDGGE	Repertoire of behavioral responses to environmental stimuli	Knowledge systems are actively constructed by learners based on existing structures	Knowledge is socially constructed
LEARNING	Passive absorption of predefined body of knowledge y learner. Promoted by repetitions and positive reinforcement	Active assimilation and accommodation of new information to existing cognitive structures. Discovered by learners	Integration of pupils into knowledge community. Collaborative assimilation and accommodation of new information
MOTIVATION	Extrinsic, reward and punishment. (positive and negative reinforces)	Intrinsic. Learners set their own goals and motivate themselves to learn.	Intrinsic and extrinsic. Learning goals and motives are determined both by learners and extrinsic rewards provided by the knowledge community
TEACHING	Correct behavioral responses are transmitted by the teacher and repeated by the pupils. The teacher reinforces these.	The teacher facilitates learning by providing an environment that promotes discovery and assimilation/accommodation	Collaborative learning is facilitated and guided by the teacher. Group work.

All this theories are new for me. I think that the better learning is socio constructivism, because  the children consstruted knowledge together.

child development

There are two definitions of child development, the first comes from Wikipedia: “child development refers to the biological and psychological changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy”, the second is from the Inter-American Development Bank: “child development is a multifaceted, integral, and continual process of change in which children become able to handle evermore complex levels of moving, thinking, feeling, and relating to others”. Although the two carry reason, I’m more in agreement with the second, because child development, in my opinion, it as to be a continuous processes.

The article said that: child development changes depending on family, friends, context, society (technology). And the teacher has to adapt to changes. Also, there are authors as:

-        ´-   Piaget: he was interested in cognitive development → individually

-          - Lev Vygotsky: he was interested in social construction. He said that teachers must know children circunstances. Is important the family for the language and the child interaction

-          - Barbara Rogoff: she was interested in the interactions in groups, culture,..She thinks that the children learnt being active participants in the real-life events.

-          - Urie Bronfennbrenner: that child development depends of experience (family), culture, language and systems (society)

-          - Judy Dunn: thinks that the conventions governing interactioins in family and context. Salliste common.

reflections

During this class, we have learn different points of view about education, the thinkers whoo influenced it were  Plato, Rousseao o Dewed.

-         -  For Dewey, education cannot really have an aim beyond itself: the end point of education is more education. Dewey thought that schools preparing for life in the real world.

-          - For Plato, education has an end in mind with “leader”.

-          - For Rousseau, education has an end in mind with “natural man”.

I agree with what was said in the article:

“as a teacher, you have an even greater responsibility to be clear to yourself and other what your aims are, and be prepared to argued and defend them” because I think that only when you know what are your aims, yo can achieve them, in education or other.

Also, we have learnt what the curriculum is aims, skills and contents that the teacher has to teach in class. The curriculum is common, although each autonomy has her own curriculum, some of the contents change in some autonomy, and this causes a lot of problems.

Also, we have to think about what is the means for us to teach, to learn, to educate,…all this are terms that I 

know but never I put one meaning. For this reason, I think all that means and has meant to me these terms in my life.