Purposes and Sources
Educational Purposes and Sources of Objectives
Ralph Tyler framed curriculum development around four questions, and the first is the hardest: what educational purposes should a school pursue? This chapter starts the long answer. It covers what objectives do in a curriculum, why choosing them is a value judgement rather than a technical step, and the four sources a developer draws on to set them: learners, contemporary life, subject specialists, and philosophy.
The four basic questions of curriculum development, and how objectives become the criteria for every later choice
Why choosing objectives is a value judgement, and how progressives, essentialists, sociologists, and philosophers each answer it
The four sources of information for setting objectives, and why studying the learner means studying changes in behaviour
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