Sociological Foundation

Foundation of Curriculum
Education and Society

Schools exist within, not apart from,

social context

Schools emerges within society

Education and Society
Why school exist in Society?

Is education “Neutral”?
Why do we have Adventist Schools?

Is bias in education okay?

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Education and Society
Educators cannot meaningfully consider the
development or delivery of curriculum without
reflecting on the relationship between schools
and society.
A Dynamic, Changing Society
 Society as a Source of Change
 Schools as Agents of Change
 Knowledge as an Agent of Change
Society as a Source of Change
 Society changes rapidly
 Sometimes education can not cope up with
the fast changing society
 Making the “Preparing for students for the
world of Tomorrow” is difficult
 Think about what we (society) have today that
we don’t have last year, or five years ago, or
even ten years ago.
Schools as Agents of Change
Changing the literacy. From 3Rs to
cultural literacy, scientific literacy, computer
literacy, technological literacy, television(or
electronic) literacy, and information literacy

 Dealing with Diversity

 Diversity of culture. Impact of globalization
 Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
 How do Adventist schools deal with this?
Knowledge as Agent of Change
Has knowledge grown?

 Explosion of Knowledge
 What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?
 Organizing Knowledge
 Subject-centered
 Areas of Knowledge
Processing Social-Educational
Priorities
What is your schools priority?
 Education for All Students
 Child-centered, Activity-centered, Experience-
centered
 Focus on Academically Talented Students
 Curriculum to challenge the “smart” students
 Focus on Disadvantaged Students
 How to help the disadvantage students gain
same acces to education?
Planning for Educational Change
 What is the aim of education? Should aim of
education changeable?

 Schools should prepare education that is not

separate from the world. The world is not static.

 Creating relevant curriculum for the changing world.

 Adventist education
 Preparing the students for the world today and the
world to come. (White)
Christian Curriculum and Society
 The curriculum must prepare each student
“for the joy of service in this world and for the
higher joy of wider service in the world to
come” (White, Education, p. 13)

 Christian curriculum should Consider the

world today. But Christian curriculum should
not forget the curriculum for preparing student
for kingdom.