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Prof Madya Dr. Mastura
Badzis, Director, Development Research Center of
Children (NCDRC) Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris,
Malaysia (Vice President Helwa)
Definition of Curriculum for
Children
Curriculum as specified in
the Education Act 1996 and Regulations 1997 of the
National Education refers to an
educational
program that encompasses all the knowledge, skills
norms, values, cultural elements and beliefs to help
develop a pupil fully with respect to the physical,
spiritual, mental and emotional as well as to nurture
and enhance the desirable moral values and to convey
knowledge.
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When translated in the education curriculum at
the school application form it is something that
involves learning programs within or outside the
classroom, activities, equipment, planning, time
table, the titles of a learned and evaluation
process. But the word is associated with the
curriculum when
children in the early stages of
development are not only focused on something
associated with the learning experience, but it
includes all the experiences in her daily life,
whether in the nursery, at home or outside the
home. The specialist unit children under the age
of 5 years from the National Children Beaureu,
United Kingdom view that the curriculum for
children
in early age placed in child care centers
include the following: |
• All
educational development opportunities provided for
children
• All
activities, attitudes and behavior, whether planned or
not, whether encouraged or prohibited
• The way
how the physical environment surrounding the children's
daily routines are prepared and performed by adults or
children themselves
• The
role played by adults for arranging, directing,
influencing and participating together to do what the
child
•
Involvement of parents in the matters mentioned (NCB,
1989, p.11)
Bruce and
Meggitt (2005) also described the curriculum of
children is
something that can help children grow and learn, which
became the responsibility of educators to provide
learning experiences to support, stimulate and assist in
cultivating the potentials of a child and it is
appropriate to the needs and abilities of children do or
learn (Department for Education and Science, 1990).
In the
context of Islam, an educational curriculum for
children,
particularly in the early stages of development involves
the learning experiences children are exposed to whether
it was planned or not, directly or indirectly gained by
a child during their growing process. Curriculum and
this experience really sparked the attitudes, values and
ethics are highlighted by the teachers, adults, families
and communities.
In other
words, the educational curriculum for a child includes
all activities and learning experiences is provided by
adults, all of the activity and thought are determined
by the child itself, including the language /
communication techniques practiced by adults and
children use
among their peers or other people instead of what they
can see and hear from their environment. At times this
curriculum may also be something hidden, that is not
planned, but without knowing the children learn. For
example, time or attention given by the caregiver or
teacher of children on an activity likely to cause
children to
feel that something more worthwhile than others despite
the fact not so.
More
Information...
The
closest model when a small
child asking
father washed his hands after eating, but the father is
busy reading the newspapers, then the
child will
understand that reading newspapers is more important
than hand washing. So no wonder the little guy after the
incident did not wash their hands after eating instead
continued to read the book, perhaps because they feel
that reading books is more important than hand washing
is highlighted by the attitude of the father despite the
fact that the father was not meant so, but this is what
the hidden curriculum. This is the key concept that must
be understood.
Continue
:-
Children Education
in Early Stage of Age-Based Construction of Integrative
Curriculum (Part 4)
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