CSP4801
Assignment 3 2024
Detailed Solutions, References & Explanations
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Due Date: 2024
QUESTION 1 (2 ANSWERS PROVIDED)
Curriculum Main Ideas Key Concepts and
Approach Examples
Positivist • Positivist predilections are evident in the prescriptive • Prescriptive content and
Curriculum nature of content and its determination by authorities to method.
promote certain social values and political beliefs. • Promotes certain social
• This approach represents curriculum as a simple, values and political
decontextualized, value-free, orderly, and predictable beliefs.
process. • Systematic and
• Associated with the Research Development purposeful planning.
Dissemination and Adoption (RDDA) approach. • Centralized construction
• Attributed to ideas by Ralph Tyler, featuring systematic and transfer of
and purposeful planning from design to evaluation. knowledge.
• Knowledge is centrally constructed and transferred, • Discipline-based
favoring discipline-based teaching, prescribed teaching andTermsrote
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