Sociological Foundation

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Sociological Foundation

• Foundation of Curriculum

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Education and Society

• Schools exist within, not apart from,
• social context
• Schools emerges within society

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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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Society
Economic
Culture
Technology
Education
Politics
Home
Schools
Church
Others
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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.

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A Dynamic, Changing Society

• Society as a Source of Change
• Schools as Agents of Change
• Knowledge as an Agent of Change

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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
  dont have last year, or five years ago, or even
  ten years ago.

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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?

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Knowledge as Agent of Change

• Has knowledge grown?
• Explosion of Knowledge
• What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?
• Organizing Knowledge
• Subject-centered
• Areas of Knowledge

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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?

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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)

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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.