DENNIS P.

PACURSA BSE lll

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

1. Search two outstanding personalities in the cluster of Curriculum Foundations who contributed to
curriculum development. Write the biography.
Philosophical Foundations

Historical foundations
Psychological foundations
Lev Vygotsky
He was a seminal Russian psychologist who is best-known for his sociocultural theory. He believed that social
interaction played a critical role in children's learning. Through such social interactions, children go through a
continuous process of learning. Vygotsky noted, however, that culture profoundly influenced this process.
Imitation, guided learning, and collaborative learning all play a critical part in his theory. Lev Vygotsky is best
known for: Zone of Proximal Development, Sociocultural Theory, and Guided Participation

According to Vygotsky, the zone of proximal development is "the distance between the actual developmental level
as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through
problem solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers."

Essentially, this zone is the gap between what a child knows and what he does not yet know. The process of
acquiring that information requires skills that a child does not yet possess or cannot do independently, but can do
with the help of a more knowledgeable other.

Sociological foundations
2. What significant contribution can you recall about the following persons?
Lev Vygotsky- proposed the Theory of Sociocultural Development. According to him, children
could actually perform certain cognitive actions as a result of their interaction with society, prior to
arriving at developmental stage.
Daniel Goleman- established
William Kipatrick
Hilda Taba
Ralph Tyler
John Dewey
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Franklin Bobbit
Alvin
3. Identify which among the foundations of curriculum, has influenced what you have learned in school as a
college student?
4. How will the thinking of Abraham Maslow influence your teaching practice in the future?
5. Do you agree with Alvin Toffler?
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