- Based on Dewey and Bowers, generate a set of guidelines for constructive curriculum development.
Cristy Lambert-Smith | Gregory Kirkland | Harold Culbreth
John Dewey:
- Natural selection has operated to put those best prepared to carry the load in the positions of authority. In other words, teachers are born not made.
- All schools that pride themselves upon being up to date utilize methods of instruction that draw upon and utilize the life experience of students and strive to individualize treatment of pupils.
- Classroom teachers are those who are in continuous direct contact with those being taught. The position of administrators is at best, indirect by comparison.
- Adult Education is an important part of the Principal’s job.
- He believes that each student should be pushed to be the best that he can be so that he can contribute to society.
- Effective Administrators offer clear decisions.
David Bowers:
- Emphasis upon participation, high levels of interdependence and aspiration, accomplishment, and enhancement of personal worth.
- Constructive change in an adaptive process consisting of successive increments of movement occurring over a relatively long period of time. Change must be a gradual process.
- Constructive change must come from the patient building of the structure of groups capable of cooperatively solving their problems.
- Managerial behavior is determined by a climate of organizational conditions.
- Highly organized management systems are a continuum ranging from those systems which are most autocratic to those systems which are most participative.
- Broad policy is only determined at the top. More specific decisions are made at lower levels.
- Decisions should be made throughout the organization and should be linked together by the existence of overlapping groups which do the decision making.