LANGUAGE CURRICULUM

Professor: Dr. Mila J. AriasPresenter: Tristan L. Piosang

Topic: IDEOLOGIES OF THE CURRICULUM:

The Socioeconomic Ideology

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS TO ASK

IN CURRICULUM PLANNING

1. What is it that we want to achieve?

2. What should be taught and learned?

3. Ultimately, what is it for?

Let’s talk about…

SOCIOECONOMIC IDEOLOGY

What is socioeconomics?

• Lutz (2009) said that socioecomics or social economics is "a discipline studying the reciprocal relationship between economic science on the one hand and social philosophy, ethics, and human dignity on the other toward social reconstruction and improvement.”

Socioeconomics deals with how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes. In general, it analyzes how societies progress, stagnate, or regress because of their local or regional economy, or the global economy.

What then is socioeconomic ideology?

He said…

“This educational philosophy emphasizes the practical needs of learners and society and the role of an educational program in producing learners who are economically productive” (Richards, 2001, p. 115).

“In language teaching, this philosophy leads to an emphasis on practical and functional skills in a foreign or second language (Richards, 2001, p. 116)

He said…

“Curriculum development was seen as based on scientific principles, and its practitioners were educational engineers whose job it was to discover the total range of habits, skills, abilities, forms of thoughts, etc. that its members need for the effective performance of their vocational labors” (Bobbit 1998, 43)”

Bobbit believed that the curriculum was a way to prepare students for their future roles in the new industrial society.

"Educate the individual according to his capabilities. This requires that the material of the curriculum be sufficient various to meet the needs of every class of individuals in the community and that the course of training and study be sufficiently flexible that the individual can be given just the things that he needs" (Bobbitt, 1912, p. 269).

In ancient Greece…

Aristotle said, in effect, that schooling should also prepares future citizens with the more functional knowledge needed to conduct their political, social, economic affairs (Gutek, 2011).

References

Bobbit, F. (1918). The curriculum. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Gutek, G. (2011). Historical and philosophical foundations of education. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.

Lutz, M. (2009). Handbook of economics and ethics. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Richards, J. (2001). Curriculum development in language teaching. NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.