Approaches to the curriculum

Plato.
He thought that education has to produce 3 types of people. Leaders are the best type but they are a minority. The objective of education is getting the harmony.
In primary children need to develop their senses and they have to be inspired by heroes. It is necessary they improve their physique. Teachers are in control and the mustn´t teach, the main method is the Socratic one. Dialogs are the most important thing.

Rousseau.
The aim of education is getting the 3 principles: Liberty, equality and fraternity. Education has to achieve that people have an independent thought.
In this stage experience and sensation are more important the knowledge or reason. Only when the individual is enough mature, he or she is able to get social academic disciplines.
Nowadays children are treated as children, like Rousseau suggested.

Dewey.
The aim of education is that people could be individuals for a democracy. So, the need to know how to solve themselves real problems.
In primary education there are 3 stages: Games and creativity, techniques and reflective attention. Each stage is more complicated than the before one.
Nowadays children work cooperatively and schools have to prepare for life in the real world. So pupils need to solve themselves their real problems.

 

There are a lot of theorists and we have to be critical with them. Everybody has to build his/her own theorist. My theory is a mixture of all of them because, in my opinion, each one has something important. For example: Children are children and not adults, creativity is very important, work cooperatively too, everybody should have an independent thought… And all the time we need to advance and not to stagnate.