{"id":3045,"date":"2018-09-16T02:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T02:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/physicscatalyst.com\/graduation\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2021-06-05T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T13:45:34","slug":"the-critical-approach-to-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/physicscatalyst.com\/graduation\/the-critical-approach-to-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Critical approach to curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is about the critical approach to curriculum. Those who embrace the critical approach to curriculum consider education as a political act, one that should function in liberated ways (Piner 1978). This is a topic under subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/physicscatalyst.com\/graduation\/b-ed\/knowledge-and-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">knowledge and curriculum<\/a> for B.Ed. I will give links for further reference at the end of the article.<\/p>\n<h2>The critical approach to curriculum<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Paolo Freire&nbsp;(1985) was a pioneer of this approach. He was a Brazilian adult literacy educator&nbsp;who worked with laborers, peasants&nbsp;etc.&nbsp;He was greatly influenced by his experiences with these economically marginalized social class.<\/li>\n<li>The critical approach assumes that education is a value-laden process.<\/li>\n<li>Learners actively create knowledge as they participate in learning by taking a&nbsp;<em>critical<\/em><em> look<\/em> at who has power and what impact that power has on the lives of those without it.<\/li>\n<li>This way learners recognize the casual and circumstantial&nbsp;relationships that cause social injustice.<\/li>\n<li>Gaining power with words transfers into gaining personal power and making a change in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Freire&#8217;s theories and curricula that comes out of them promote critical thinking, dialogue, and discussion making activities that support democratic ideals and move towards socially critical consciousness.<\/li>\n<li>In developing critical curriculum, teachers must first learn about important issues in their student&#8217;s lives through conversation, journaling, discussions and lots of listening.<\/li>\n<li>This research enables teachers to identify issues that relate to the experiences and concerns student&#8217;s identity.<\/li>\n<li>Reading and writing develop one after another with critical thinking skills and literacy learning becomes a means of transforming student&#8217;s lives and communities.<\/li>\n<li>Often, a unit of curriculum ends with meaningful action that addresses community needs.<\/li>\n<li>In critical approach\n<ol>\n<li>Teachers lead the class while following the leads of learners.<\/li>\n<li>The form of knowledge gained is fixed and depends on interaction among students, texts and teachers. Knowledge is created rather than taken in.<\/li>\n<li>Here education is political. Both language and power are connected.<\/li>\n<li>It addresses social and community issues of importance.<\/li>\n<li>The curriculum is not set in advance. It emerges from <em>&#8220;action and interaction of the participants&#8221;<\/em> [Doll, 1993]<\/li>\n<li>Learning is assessed through the portfolio, self-assessment instruments, measures of social and political change and levels of critical consciousness reached. Here external performance levels do not apply<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Advantages of Critical approach to curriculum<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>It does not ignore the difficulties that learners face in life and provides a way for learners to meet them head-on.<\/li>\n<li>It is motivating as it does not create a separation between a learner&#8217;s life and what they are learning.<\/li>\n<li>It helps the learner bridge the <em>classroom\/real world<\/em> divide.<\/li>\n<li>It is helpful in social justice embracement.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Disadvantages of Critical approach to curriculum<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>It is time-consuming.<\/li>\n<li>Teachers need a particular set of facilitation skills to teach reading and writing.<\/li>\n<li>Learners may be uneasy as they are not familiar with it.<\/li>\n<li>Since taking action in a crucial element of the curriculum teachers need to recognize the potential that learner&#8217;s actions may cause a backlash from the powers that are being questioned.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<pre><strong>Further References on Critical approach to curriculum<\/strong>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsall.net\/index.html@id=190.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.ncsall.net\/index.html@id=190.html<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsall.net\/index.html@id=202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.ncsall.net\/index.html@id=202.html<\/a>\nIn the above pages look for the pdf download to get more in-depth and accurate knowledge on this topic.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is about the critical approach to curriculum. Those who embrace the critical approach to curriculum consider education as a political act, one that should function in liberated ways (Piner 1978). This is a topic under subject&nbsp;knowledge and curriculum for B.Ed. I will give links for further reference at the end of the article. 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