Assignment:
In Ornstein, Pajak, and Ornstein, Veronica Boix Mannsilla and Howard Gardner discuss the advantage of the disciplinary approach to curriculum and instruction over the more traditional subject centered approach. Today we are in the standards movement and as such teachers are required to teach the standards. Wiles and Bondi present a good discussion of standards and teaching those standards; however, as Wiles and Bondi point out, "how the curriculum is treated determines the 'meaning' of that curriculum" (2015, p. 151). Compare the subject centered and discipline centered approaches, evaluate the argument of Mannsilla and Gardner related to these two approaches, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. Which approach, subject, or discipline do you see as working best within the standards movement of today? Why?
- Compared the similarities and differences between the subject matter approach and the disciplinary approach to curriculum.
- Evaluated the argument of Mannsilla and Gardner for the use of the disciplinary approach.
- Discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
- Provided a well-supported rationale for the use of either the subject centered or disciplinary to developing curriculum for the standards movement.
Your answer must be, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format.