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Curriculum Development

Curriculum always develops (both in the past and the present) in relation to three points The nature of the subject matter The nature of society The nature of the individual (understanding of what it means to be a person)

The key point is the realization that the history of curriculum parallels the whole of human history How at a given point in time, society reflected the understandings of what it means to be a human person and what subject matter counts to be this human person

The Greeks developed the Quadrivium:  Arithmetic  Geometry  Astronomy  Music The Romans developed the Trivium: Grammar Rhetoric Dialectic

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) A Social Darwinist  Coined he phrase “survival of the fittest  1859 – “What Knowledge is of Most Worth?” The most central question to curriculum development Why is this knowledge worthwhile? How is this knowledge acquired or created?

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