Introduction to Curriculum Theory Task 1

The Four Ideologies

Social Reconstruction The Social Reconstruction ideology highlights that the purpose of education is to reconstruct society. Educators within this ideology recognize the injustices and inequalities within our society, and use education as a means to reconstruct or change it for the better. In this ideology, teachers are facilitators and leaders in the struggle for social justice, and work as facilitators and identify the injustices that can be discussed and changed to better shape our society. Schiro (2008) identified the instructional procedures of starting where students are, like with an experience in their community, developing an experience that emotionally and intellectually involved children, and then having an...