Month: September 2020

According to the Levin article, school curricula are primarily developed by the provincial government in consultation with different groups. Often teachers make up the majority, with experts in each area, usually from post-secondary institutions. This group would look at the existing curriculum to find what is working and what...

To be a good student, according to commonsense understandings, you must follow instructions and do things exactly the way the teacher wants them done. You must behave as the teacher expects. As Kimoshiro points out in his chapter M was not a bad student; she did not learn how...

The Tyler rationale is very prevalent in schools. It is the basis for much of the work students do. As Mark Smith, in his article What is curriculum? Exploring theory and practice states, “Objectives are set, a plan drawn up, then applied, and the outcomes (products) measured.” This understanding...

Kumashiro defines commonsense in his work “The Problem of Common Sense” as the knowledge a group of people has that feels comfortable to them. Commonsense dictates the norms of daily life as they have been done in the past. When following these commonsense beliefs, we fail to question why...