Explain How Do Curriculum Changes Improve Students Experience In Secondary School
But do curriculum changes improve the students' experience in secondary school?
Observing Sweden's secondary school system, we can see that they have 17 programs, which provide core subjects like Swedish, English, Mathematics, Arts, Physical Education and Health,
Social Studies, General Science and Religion. This was the outcome of the 1994's reform, which tried to make the curriculum focused on the student's educational outcome, related with their own goals. In this context, students have the ability to choose some of the courses in their specific program, which can include subjects from other areas. This shifts the focus to individual choices, that can be either based in pragmatic solutions or individual preferences, and that transforms the …show more content…
Those subjects are essential, in daily life, and the lack of offers that secondary school provides doesn't enable them to grow as citizens. The lack of choice doesn't allow the students to have a role in their education, and it has, and will have an effect in social, economical, and political terms.
Conclusion
Secondary school is a step that students have to take before going to university. It is a changing moment, and it contributes to a self-construction of the student, as well as it provides him enough information to be able to decide, according to his expectations and ambitions, what he might want to do, in his life. Also, it allows the students to have common knowledge of daily-life requirements, being them economical, political, ecological issues, and to build themselves as citizens. By not providing the opportunity for the students to decide which courses they want to take, and by not broadening the core curriculum subjects, the portuguese educational system lacks coherence, and lacks a heterogenic view of its students' needs, interests, and
Observing Sweden's secondary school system, we can see that they have 17 programs, which provide core subjects like Swedish, English, Mathematics, Arts, Physical Education and Health,
Social Studies, General Science and Religion. This was the outcome of the 1994's reform, which tried to make the curriculum focused on the student's educational outcome, related with their own goals. In this context, students have the ability to choose some of the courses in their specific program, which can include subjects from other areas. This shifts the focus to individual choices, that can be either based in pragmatic solutions or individual preferences, and that transforms the …show more content…
Those subjects are essential, in daily life, and the lack of offers that secondary school provides doesn't enable them to grow as citizens. The lack of choice doesn't allow the students to have a role in their education, and it has, and will have an effect in social, economical, and political terms.
Conclusion
Secondary school is a step that students have to take before going to university. It is a changing moment, and it contributes to a self-construction of the student, as well as it provides him enough information to be able to decide, according to his expectations and ambitions, what he might want to do, in his life. Also, it allows the students to have common knowledge of daily-life requirements, being them economical, political, ecological issues, and to build themselves as citizens. By not providing the opportunity for the students to decide which courses they want to take, and by not broadening the core curriculum subjects, the portuguese educational system lacks coherence, and lacks a heterogenic view of its students' needs, interests, and