Social Diagnosis
Social Diagnosis for Curriculum
A curriculum is a mirror of its society. To build one well, a developer has to read the society and its culture carefully, a task this chapter calls social diagnosis. It covers why education is a social process, the difference between culture and society, and a classic way of breaking a culture into universals, specialties, and alternatives, with a stable cultural core at the centre.
Education as a social process, the two-way link between school and society, and what the profession must know in times of change
What culture is, what a society is, the difference between them, and how culture shapes the individual
Linton’s three categories of cultural elements, starting with universals: the things nearly everyone in a society shares
The knowledge held by only some, by occupation or social position, and the chosen elements that depart from accepted ways
How cultural elements group into a stable core and a shifting outer ring, and why the core gives a society its stability
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