CUS3701 Curriculum Studies Assignment 2 Memo. Question 1
Everyday knowledge (also known as general knowledge)
Acquired randomly from conversations overheard, from the TV or radio, from
watching parents, from punishment or praise. The structure is unsystematic, it is
picked up in bits and pi...
Everyday knowledge (also known as general knowledge)
Acquired randomly from conversations overheard, from the TV or radio, from
watching parents, from punishment or praise. The structure is unsystematic, it is
picked up in bits and pieces. It is communicated orally and can be difficult to
remember and repeat. It is based on opinion, it is personal and local. The type of
everyday knowledge that is acquired depends on family and community context and
culture. It is practical and concrete, it belongs to and talks about a particular context
and it requires generalising and thinking conceptually. (Booyse & Du Plessis, 2020)
Examples:
The cost of a bus ticket
The result of a sports event
Characteristics of family members
News about celebrities and pop culture
Interpersonal skills
Abstract-structured knowledge
Acquired in a structured way such as schooling extends everyday experience. The
structure is systematic. It is grouped into particular subject disciplines like
Mathematics, Science and Geography, which develop their own language. It is
written, which gives it more continuity over time. It is taught systematically, with
simpler concepts or tasks coming first and more complex concepts or tasks building
on them later. Based on evidence, it comes from a long tradition of research and
debate about what counts as important knowledge. School knowledge depends on a
national curriculum that is the same for all children. It is networked, i.e. it fits into a
web of concepts and it requires learning language (discourse) that is specific to
different subject. (Booyse & Du Plessis, 2020)
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