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Lesson three

The History of Curriculum in Workforce Development

Pretest:

Complete the pretest located in Moodle to see how much you know about this week's lesson.

 

Introduction:

The resources in this lesson provide us with a synopsis of past decisions made by curriculum developers that have molded workforce development education into today's curriculum. Hopefully we can reflect on the successes and failures of past curriculum developers to make better decisions for the future. Enjoy your trip to the past. Next week we will continue our journey as we examine past trends and issues that played a role in these decisions.

 

Objectives:

• Outline the history of curriculum development.

• Identify and discuss the impact of 18th century decision making committees on the development of curriculum in the public schools.

• Debate the goals and mission of today's Agricultural Education in relation to its historical origin.

  
  

Readings:

• Read p.28-39 in Curriculum Design and Development by David Pratt.

• Meet the innovators of public education including John Dewey.

• Read G. E. & Borne, C. J. (1986). The Secondary Vocational Agriculture Curriculum from 1890-1980. The Journal of The American Association of Teacher Educators in Agriculture, 27 (3), p.8-19.

• Read more about the Committee of Ten.

• Read more about the Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education.

• Read the article "A New Association in Born," Techniques, February 2002, p. 20-44.
  This article is in 5 sections. Please read all 5.

  • section 1 A New Association in Born

  • section 2 Answering the Call to Duty

  • section 3 The Times They are A-Changing

  • section 4 A New Age of Technology

  • section 5 An Association is Reborn

Powerpoint Presentations:

Download this week's presentation:

History of Curriculum in Workforce Development by Dr. Gary Moore, NCSU.

 

Assignments:

1. Outline the history of curriculum development in all of education according to Pratt in Curriculum: Design and Development.

2. Using the article "A New Association in Born," Techniques, February 2002, p. 20-44, create a timeline including historical events, changes and/or decisions that you feel were most critical in the development of Workforce Development curriculum as we know it today. These might include wars, legislation, major reports, etc. Please create and use a visual model (flow chart, diagram, table, etc.) of your choice to illustrate this timeline. You could use Microsoft Word or Excel or even a single Powerpoint slide for your model.

Please submit both assignments in the correct places in the AEE 529 Moodle site.

 

Plugins to third party applications found in this lesson such as Quicktime, Powerpoint, Word, Adobe, etc can be downloaded from the AEE 529 course syllabus.