It is clear that before talking about the curriculum you have to discuss
about what are your aims of education but this is not as simple as that,
nowadays there are a lot of theories about the aims of education and what to
focus on.
I think that as a future teacher I should be making an idea of which are
the aims of education for me even before knowing all that theories because if I
think about that know and in a few months I revise what I have written, I will
be able to choose what theory is more my kind than if I just read a lot of
information and be influenced or also my
ideas may change so that could be interesting to read too.
To begin with, in my opinion there are two aims of education:
- · Teaching knowledge
- · Teaching values (moral, intellectual, civic and performance)*
But that’s what almost everyone would say, I think that as a teacher we
all agree with that (There are always exceptions). The problem is what to focus
on, as I have said there are a lot of theories buy from my point of view we
should focus on teaching values, even more in primary school because the
children then are learning the values that will go along with them for the rest
of their lives.
But by saying that we should focus on character I’m not saying that we
should forget teaching knowledge that’s also important, furthermore you can
teach both teaching and values but not with the traditional methods. Let’s
imagine a group of kids playing trivial (sorry for the quality of my example
but I want to make it clear) Aren’t they going to learn knowledge? Yes and they
would also being learning values like teamwork, furthermore they would be
enjoying! And if the kids enjoy at the same time that learn they wouldn’t associate
learning with books they would associate it with games and that will make them
to want to learn more!
Finally, I would be learning in this year more methods and more theories
about that so I would love to share with you how to get our aims of education.
I’ll keep writing!
*Inspired by
the article ‘’Character as the aim of education’’ written by David Light
Shields.
