From taught to edited curriculum

  • María Graciela Di Franco Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
  • Silvia Siderac
  • Norma Di Franco

Keywords:

curriculum, text books, authority, teacher training

Abstract

This article is about some final reflections of a curricular investigation. We started working with the conceptions our students had at out authority.  We could see the focus was on the experts who wrote the school texts and on our own ideas regarding knowledge and authority. We also found out that teachers used mainly school text books lo organize their practice and that they selected them because of the amount of activities they had This "ingenuous" point of view does not consider text books as cultural products. When we analyzed these texts we could see they presented so many contents that they surpassed the number of classes available in a year We could also observe that these contents had no relation with the students cultural experience and that they did not help them develop a reflective comprehension, keeping aside some voices as those of women, ethnic groups, etc.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Silvia Siderac

Profesora de Ingles (UNLPam). Magister en Evaluación. Docente de la Catedra Curriculum. Fac. de Cs. Humanas

Norma Di Franco

Profesora de Matematica (UNLPam). Docente de la Catedra Curriculum. Fac. de Cs. Humanas. Cursa Maestría en Didáctica de las Ciencias, UNCo

Published

2012-07-29

How to Cite

Di Franco, M. G., Siderac, S., & Di Franco, N. (2012). From taught to edited curriculum. Praxis Educativa, 10(10), 81–87. Retrieved from https://ojs.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/praxis/article/view/482