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Using Canva as our digital platform, May and I created a visual representation to showcase the relationships of different philosophical foundations, curriculum conceptions, and curricular designs. Collaboratively, we thought of three guiding questions which helped to focus and organize our big ideas on the different relationships. 
The questions are as follows:

  1. What is curriculum and its purpose? 
  2. How does philosophy connect with curricular conceptions?
  3. How do curricular conceptions dominate curriculum designs?
There are also curriculum considerations that we have addressed such as scope, sequence, continuity, and integration. Different curriculum conceptions influence curriculum designs including subject-centered, subject-processed, learner-based, and society culture. Finally, at the end of the flowchart and slides, our takeaways have addressed and responded to our earlier guiding questions. We hope that we have succinctly delineated the relationships between the key components and core concepts of Module 2.   
Please find our Google Slides presentation here.

With these inquires in mind, we have constructed a hybrid flowchart along with slides to present how each component is interconnected and interwoven.  From the beginning, we have addressed the two contrasting philosophical foundations - traditional and contemporary.  These two overarching philosophies branch off into four types of educational philosophies: perrenialism, essentialism, progressivism, and reconstructionism. These educational philosophies are linked to different conceptions of curriculum which include academic rationalism, technological conceptions, humanistic, and social relevance reconstruction. 


Comments

  1. Amy Rowley24 October 2020 at 16:44

    Hi Karissa and May,

    I want to start by commending you on creating a very clear visual representation of the conceptions of curriculum, philosophies of education, and conceptions of curriculum. I appreciated how your visual flowchart was easy to follow and understand. One aspect of your work that really stood out to me was your use of guiding questions. I think these guiding questions were very useful to orientate the reader and to help organize the big ideas from your slideshow. I also appreciated the takeaways you added at the end of your slideshow. This really helped to communicate the interconnectedness between the conceptions of curriculum, philosophies of education, and conceptions of curriculum. I also found that these takeaways were an effective way to bring the reader back to the guiding questions from the beginning of your slideshow.

    Well done and thanks for sharing!

    Amy Rowley

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