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1 - Explanation of Mortimer Adler's epistemological perspective on the Paideia curriculum
The main purpose of this paper is to explain the epistemological foundations of the Paideia project and its critique. Philosophical foundations, psychological foundations, sociological foundations, and historical foundations are considered as the basic foundations of ed MoreThe main purpose of this paper is to explain the epistemological foundations of the Paideia project and its critique. Philosophical foundations, psychological foundations, sociological foundations, and historical foundations are considered as the basic foundations of education, especially in the field of curriculum, and the epistemological basis can be analyzed in the context of philosophical foundations... In this article, Adler's epistemological perspective on the twentieth century is examined, and the connection between this theory and his proposed curriculum, Paideia, is explained. The research method in the present article is descriptive-analytical and critique based on contemporary perspectives. According to the findings of the present article, there is a coherent relationship between the levels of good for the mind and the forms of knowledge that are presented in Adler's epistemological perspective and the levels of learning in his proposed curriculum. However, critiques based on contemporary views can be made on his epistemological perspective. Adler did not pay attention to tacit knowledge. Secondly, he did not refer to the point of science in the discussion of "universality" and "stability" and therefore situated in challenge of "the dynamics of science. Third, he did not develop the skills proposed in the Paideia curriculum based on the epistemological form of "knowing how". Manuscript profile -
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2 - Exploring and Criticizing Childhood images in Act of Iranian Preschool Curriculum
Narges SajadiehThis paper aims to deduct the concept of childhood presumed in the "Guide of the curriculum and educational and training activities of preschool" document and criticize it. For this purpose, hidden childhood images supposed in this document was explored. Then, these ima MoreThis paper aims to deduct the concept of childhood presumed in the "Guide of the curriculum and educational and training activities of preschool" document and criticize it. For this purpose, hidden childhood images supposed in this document was explored. Then, these images were criticized. While in internal critique, inconsistencies were explained, in external critique, these images were examined from the view of Islamic theory of action. The method of inferring childhood images was transcendental analysis and content analysis. Also, whereas the internal critique has done was conceptual structure evaluation, the external critique has done by constant comparative analysis. After examining the document, seven childhood images were inferred: the child as an organism, the child as a mechanism, the child as the capital, the child as a pre-adult person, and the child as a potentially innocent person. The most important incompatibility that was found in the document emerged between the child as an organism and the child as a mechanism. In the external critique, the childhood images in Islamic Theory of Action were listed as "child as a pseudo-agent" and "child as a wildflower which relies on a caretaker". Our findings showed that the curriculum framework does not consider due attention to the young age of the plant and its dependence on the caretaker. Furthermore, the image of child as machine wasn't considered acceptable for humans, whether children or adults. Manuscript profile -
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3 - Autopoietic Curriculum in the Age of Outbreak of Pandemic Covid-19 and Corona-Life
bakhtiar shabani Alireza HooshmandVarious aspects of human life including education were affected by the outbreak of pandemic Covid-19 virus & Corona disease simultaneously. Possibility of the chronicity caused a keeping attention to education in this situation. Corona-life forced two central systems of MoreVarious aspects of human life including education were affected by the outbreak of pandemic Covid-19 virus & Corona disease simultaneously. Possibility of the chronicity caused a keeping attention to education in this situation. Corona-life forced two central systems of education, public and higher education, to be continued in cyberspace, as they used professional and useful soft wares. In the corona age, limited views, divided approaches, and reducing the whole of human life to separate aspects lead to a deficiency in curricula. To rely exclusively on empirical science or to rely merely on lived experiences have caused difficulties for curricula in this time. In this paper, we examined curricula in the Iranian education system during the corona-life. Some factors such as low infrastructures, poor conditions, lack of professional skills, and necessary competencies are noticed. It is argued that the reductionist approach of the current curricula leads to alienation from the deep meaning of curricula in public and higher education. We used the metaphor of a Swamp Curriculum to describe the current situation of curriculum. As this metaphor indicates, Swamp Curriculum causes people, education systems, and processes focus on specific dimensions and finally, it leads to pulling them down. Neuro-phenomenology, as a comprehensive approach, provides us with an integral consideration of the dimensions of human life. Inspired by neuro-phenomenology, an ecumenical and holographic approach to the curriculum can be achieved that can be called autopoietic curriculum. It is a self-organized and non-reductionist curriculum. The central properties of the autopoietic curriculum are comprehensiveness, uncertainty, rationality, synergistic and hybrid agency. The autopoietic curriculum also requires intertwining, complexity, emergency and inclusiveness. As a result, we explain that the implications of the neuro-phenomenological approach, including uncertainty and pluri-disciplinarity, provide us with a holographic approach to consider the emergent universe scenario in the curriculum development in the age of COVID-19. Manuscript profile -
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4 - Explaining the Foundations of Metamodern Theory and Their Implications for Defining Curriculum Elements
mustafa Zabandan Einollah Abedi ghaderi mostafaThe purpose of this research, in addition to presenting a metamodern curriculum, is to empower teachers to overcome the difficulties and negative side effects of modern and postmodern curricula. For this purpose, to answer the questions, a multi-method approach includin MoreThe purpose of this research, in addition to presenting a metamodern curriculum, is to empower teachers to overcome the difficulties and negative side effects of modern and postmodern curricula. For this purpose, to answer the questions, a multi-method approach including the documentary method, the interpretive conceptual analysis, and the progressive type of practical syllogism are used. As the results, in addition to revealing the crises of the modern and postmodern curriculum, a model of the metamodern curriculum including the elements of curriculum is presented in such a way that through this curriculum, the community of teachers and students can consider the reflection of learning in thoughts and actions in social, cultural, and institutional contexts. By means of this model, distinct opportunities are provided for people with mental abilities as well as for people with learning disabilities. The result of this research is the presentation of three bases for developing a metamodern curriculum, which include: 1-Considering the modern and postmodern curriculum as effective historical experiences; 2- The metamodern curriculum as a care approach; 3-The metamodern curriculum as hope. Manuscript profile
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