One interesting curriculum planning approach mentioned in “Models of Curriculum Planning” by George Posner was Joseph Schwab’s interpretation of the Procedural approach. His approach involves extensive deliberation (1) regarding the selection of information to be taught. While I agree that it is important to consider all aspects of material presented, I do not agree that all teachable subjects need to have this much complexity at primary levels. Presenting students in Grade 1, for example, with a few different models and methods of addition will allow them to pick the method that they resonate with, rather than presenting these same students with every addition method, including subtraction as the inverse of addition would be too overwhelming at that age level. They are not cognitively advanced enough to grasp the abstract approaches until they have cemented the more visual ones first.
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