1. Sociological Foundation of the Curriculum

2. Education and Society Schools exist within, not apart from,
social context
Schools emerges within society

3. Education and Society Why school exist in Society?
Is education “Neutral”?
Why do we have Adventist Schools?
Is bias in education okay?

4. Society
Economic
Culture
Technology
Education
Politics
Schools
Home
Church
Others

5. Education and Society
Educators cannot meaningfully consider the development or delivery of curriculum without reflecting on the relationship between schools and society.

6. A Dynamic, Changing Society
Society as a Source of Change
Schools as Agents of Change
Knowledge as an Agent of Change

7. Society as a Source of Change
Society changes rapidly
Sometimes education can not cope up with the fast changing society
Making the “Preparing for students for the world of Tomorrow” is difficult
Think about what we (society) have today that we don’t have last year, or five years ago, or even ten years ago.

8. Schools as Agents of Change
Changing the literacy. From 3Rs to cultural literacy, scientific literacy, computer literacy, technological literacy, television(or electronic) literacy, and information literacy
Dealing with Diversity
Diversity of culture. Impact of globalization
Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
How do Adventist schools deal with this?

9. Knowledge as Agent of Change
Has knowledge grown?
Explosion of Knowledge
What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?
Organizing Knowledge
Subject-centered
Areas of Knowledge

10. Processing Social-Educational Priorities
What is your schools priority?
Education for All Students
Child-centered, Activity-centered, Experience-centered
Focus on Academically Talented Students
Curriculum to challenge the “smart” students
Focus on Disadvantaged Students
How to help the disadvantage students gain same acces to education?

11. Planning for Educational Change
What is the aim of education? Should aim of education changeable?
Schools should prepare education that is not separate from the world. The world is not static.
Creating relevant curriculum for the changing world.
Adventist education
Preparing the students for the world today and the world to come. (White)

12. Christian Curriculum and Society
The curriculum must prepare each student “for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come” (White, Education, p. 13)
Christian curriculum should Consider the world today. But Christian curriculum should not forget the curriculum for preparing student for kingdom.