2. Objectives
At end of this lesson, the student will able to:
Define curriculum
Describe Conceptions of a curriculum
Describe educational philosophy under curriculum
Implications for designing a nursing curriculum
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3. Curriculum
Curriculum is, in the simplest terms, a description of
what, why, how and when students should learn
curriculum is an area of vital importance to the
professional teacher
Teachers need to be knowledgeable about
curriculum and understand the processes by which
curricula may be developed
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4. Definition…
It is set of subjects or sequence of courses
Everything that is planned by school personnel and a
series of experiences undergone by learners in a
school
An aggregate of courses of study in a school system
Curriculum can be defined in a narrow sense as ‘an
organized set of formal educational and or training
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5. Curriculum is a compressive plan for an educational
program offered to fulfill the needs of a dynamic society
It is planned learning experiences that the educational
institution intended to provide for the learners
It Comprises
means of assessment, attitudes and instructional
strategies taught in the classroom and or in the field
Broader sense definition
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6. Philosophical of nursing education and Curriculum
Choices and decisions about curriculum is based on
understanding of the educational ideologies
Three broad streams of educational philosophy for
curricula choices
Conservative
progressive
radical views
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7. Philosophical…
1. The conservative view
purpose of education is to transmit worthwhile bodies of
information and truths to generation
The two schools of thought are Perennialism and
Essentialism
These schools agree that
Social change should be slow and they need to conserve
methodology should be teacher directed and ensures
content-centered curriculum
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8. 1. Perennialism
• Inflexible philosophy of education
• believes that reality comes from fundamental fixed truths
especially related to God.
• "Education implies teaching, teaching implies knowledge
and Knowledge is truth.
• The truth everywhere is the same and hence, education
should be everywhere the same."
Philosophical…
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9. 2. Essentialism
• Rooted in idealism and realism, essentialists
• Suggests that both body and mind are important in
education
• preservation and transmission of what is essential to learn
to generation
• Teacher is best and knows what is important for the learner
• The learner will not ask why but to do as told
• the learner is a passive recipient of information
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10. 2. The progressive view
• Arise from dissatisfaction with traditional education
practices that totally ignores the learners’ need and
interest in education.
• This often referred to as ‘Learner-centered’ education
The two school of thought are Romantic naturalism
and experimentalism
Philosophical…
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11. 2.1. Romantic naturalism
society interferes too much in the education of children
Each learner considered as a potential flower
‘’the best that the teacher can do is do nothing’’
2.2. Experimentalism
Education help learners make connections between their
life experiences and the world of schooling
Ideas must always be tested by experimentation
ideology is based on pragmatism
Pragmatists’ view is that what is real and true is what works
Knowledge is judged on the basis of its consequences
Philosophical…
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12. 3. The radical view
Dissatisfied with the progressive educationists
The view that education should do more in preparing learners
The learner must actively engage in the learning
teachers have to be courageous and bold in performing their
roles in reconstructing.
Teaching-learning process- Cooperative and collaborative
experiences
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13. Implications for designing a nursing curriculum
National governments and national regulatory bodies will
always have a dominant say in the direction which nursing
education should take.
Curriculum change, on the other hand, is the responsibility
of the individual nursing education institution
Three approaches to curriculum model
Content-driven/content focused
process-based
outcomes-based
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14. A content-driven curriculum is rooted on the essentialist
conservative view of education.
• the most widely used approach to designing a curriculum
• The starting point for such a curriculum is usually a list of
content areas that must be taught
• Lectures, interspersed with discussions, dominate the
teaching/ learning process.
Implications for designing a nursing curriculum…
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15. The process-based curricula focuses on helping
learners how to learn
The basic premise is that there is too much knowledge
available in nursing education but a limited time to
prepare students for a lifetime of professional work
The best that the teachers can do is to help students learn
how to locate information, analyze and interpret it in
solving life problems
Implications for designing …
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16. Implications for designing…
Out come - based
A radical philosophy of education would seek to
transform not only the relationship between teachers
and students, but also the relationship between
nurses and clients, and ultimately the health care
system
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17. Major Conceptions of Curriculum
1. The academic rationalist conception
the application of cognitive skills in resolving
problems
2. The humanistic conception
It is all rounded personality and holistic approach
with integration of cognitive, affective and
psychomotor domains
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18. Major Conceptions of Curriculum…
3. Social re-constructionist conception
a curriculum should be derived from social needs
and free from emancipation, right to know reality
4. Technological conception
Organization of knowledge and use of resources
to respond to human needs
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