Postmodernism: G

oals of
Education
Reporter: Arnie A. Valera
MAED - English
Goals of Education
– Education should help students
construct diverse and personally
useful values in the context of
their cultures
Goals of Education
– Education should assist
individuals in becoming
independent, productive citizens
in a system featuring multifaceted
identities
Goals of Education
– Education helps individuals
construct their identities rather
than discover them.
Goals of Education
– Education aims to empower
people to attain their own
chosen goals and only then can
individuals and societies
progress
Goals of Education
– Education aims for a growing
awareness of the radical diversity
and potential incommensurability of
the different cultural forms of life
that sustain groups and individuals
Postmodernism:T
he
Curriculum
Reporter: Arnie A. Valera
The Curriculum
– a “trial and error” approach by
both students and teacher ensures
the constant reshaping of the
content to be learned as well as the
context in which learning occurs
The Curriculum
– a curriculum that does not lead
to a particular pattern
The Curriculum
– should include important values
to teach which are as follows:
1. Striving for Diversity
– does not mean that students
shall be accepting cultural
practices and beliefs without
question
2. Tolerance
–the acceptance of the differing
views of other people and the
fairness towards the people
who hold these different views
3. Freedom
– considerable autonomy is given to
both teachers (localizing activities
in the classroom) and students (in
terms of their decision making)
4. Creativity
–the ability to use the
imagination to develop new and
original ideas or things
5. Emotions
– expressing a strong feeling directly
towards a specific object which is
accompanied by physiological and
behavioural changes in the body
6. Intuition
– immediate cognition or a
feeling that guides a person to
act a certain way without fully
understanding why.
Postmodernism:
Doll’s
Model
Reporter: Arnie A. Valera
Features
–it stresses the concept of reflection
–learning and understanding come
through dialogue and reflection
Features
–Curriculum is a process not of
transmitting what is known but
of exploring what is unknown
Features
–emphasizes self-organisation,
indeterminacy and creative
making of meaning
–open-ended
Features
–Should have richness, recursion,
relation and rigor
Richness
–refers to a curriculum’s depth,
its layers of meaning, and to its
multiple possibilities or
interpretations.
Recursion
–refers to the repetition of an
idea but to a higher, new level.
example: spiral curriculum
Relation
–refers to the connection one can
draw from the lesson to his own
pedagogies and culture
Rigor
–the application of precise and
exacting standards in the doing
of something
Thanks for
Listening!
Reporter: Arnie A. Valera