Reflection 5

Kleibald over seven decades has identified four interest groups that have been trying to take control of schools through curriculum. The first group is the Humanist group that believes that humans are different than any other creature, so that is when they decided to study the needs and interests of humans. In the humanistic view of education there are five objectives which are: to promote positive self-direction and independence, develop the ability to take responsibility for what is learned, develop creativity, curiosity, and an interest in the arts. The humanistic education intended to have from one to three of approaches which are to teach a variety of skills, a humane approach to education, and basic human concerns.

Second are the Developmentalists which as their name states were more focused on the development of the child in both emotional and behavioral qualities. They believed in using the development of the students as the source of the curriculum but the critics saw that the curriculum was been shaped by one factors instead of looking at all the relevant factors.

Third are the Social efficiency educators which wanted to design a curriculum that would allow for each individual to function in a society. They saw education as a way to control society and to test them in order to predict the impact the education has on society. Their educational views came from the efficiency of factories that would produce workers to work in factories but the people that opposed this curriculum believe that the social efficiency educators were pushing for focusing more on testing and separating the students based on their scores.

Fourth is Social meliorist view education as a way to reform society and to change it to a better one. They believed in the power of the individual and how to improve the person intelligence through education. They also believed that the future of the person was not based on their background, gender, social status or any other factor but the people that opposed view the social meliorist goals as something that is hard to measure and that the results would take too long to show.