Planning Goals and learning outcomes (part 1)

Planning Goals and learning outcomes

The ideology of curriculum

1.    Academic rationalism
This justification for the aims of curriculum stresses the intrinsic value of the subject matter and its role in developing learner’s intellect, humanistic, values, and rationality.     Academic rationalism is sometimes is used to justify the inclusion of certain foreign languages in school curricula, here they are taught not as tool for communication   but as an aspect of social studies.
 Clark(1987,6) points out that in UK academic rationalism is concerned with:
•    The maintenance and the transmission through education of the wisdom and culture of previous generations. This has led to the creation of two-tier system of education-one to accord the    higher cultural tradition of elite, and other to cater the more concrete and lifestyles of the masses.
•     The development for the elite of generalizabel intellectual capacities critical faculties.
•    The Maintenance of stands through an inspectorate and external examination boards controlled by the universities