A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a terminal degree, such as a master's degree or a doctorate (PhD).
2. ROLE OF THE SCHOLARS
What is the particular role in curriculum planning of the scholar from a discipline
other than education.
There are at least three ways in which he can help.
He can often give crucial advise regarding what should be taught , he can
sometimes point out what can be taught , and he can often suggest means of
implementing curriculum decisions.
For instance , scholars in biology , mathematics, and physics are now working with
teachers and others curriculum workers in determining what should be taught in
the schools in these fields.
These planners found that textbook in use contained almost none of the modern
concept .
The sociologist can give particular assistance in determining the means by which
the goals of education may be achieved and in identifying the essential values and
behavior pattern which must be taught as society changes.
3. ROLE OF CITIZENS AND PARENTS
We must work with the public and have orderly patterns for its participation .
People need to be involved in the process of planning the curriculum in order
to change their beliefs , attitudes and behavior regarding it.
Staff members must learn to work with citizens , citizens must take part but
not take over .
This should begin at the level of the parents planning with the teacher about
the needs of his child and should move from there to the citizens advisory
council and the curriculum committee.
4. ROLE OF THE STUDENT
The student is the major untapped resource in curriculum planning .
Students are in the best position to explain many of the advantages and
deficiencies of the present curriculum .
Their ideas and reactions are of very great importance.
Learning is significantly improved by putting greater responsibility on the
student .
5. ROLE OF THE TEACHER
A most important part of the teacher role is to communicate to students his
on valuing of learning.
Teacher motivate young people by their on motivation.
Learner learn to like to learn from teacher who exhibit the intellectual
accomplishment of regularly acquiring and acting on new knowledge.
Teacher must evaluate and interrelate the contributions curriculum plan for
the approval of the curriculum committee or council and the school board.
6. ROLE OF THE ADMINISTRATORS
The role of the administrator is one of the major source in curriculum
planning .
Administrator provide structure for planning .
To inform , to offer recommendation , to bring together contributions from all
sources and to work out a recommended plan of action for curriculum change
.
In the analysis of the curriculum which is planned ,the administrator must be
certain that it takes account of the nature of the learner and the society.
7. ROLE OF THE STATE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL
The education department will almost certainly find that we need a
curriculum which emphasized the central concepts of the disciplines ,
concepts that explain phenomena in term of their future state and direction.
They will see that our democracy will require many skillful citizens who will
have a numerous increasingly complex task as buyer , voters and cooperative
planners.
They will learn that the school which faces toward the future world must
teach innovation , problem solving , a love of learning.
