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    Peter Oliva outlines 10 axioms or principles for curriculum designers to follow: 1) Change is inevitable and necessary for curriculum to stay relevant. 2) Curriculum should reflect the current time period. 3) New and older curriculum can coexist during a transition period. 4) Teachers implementing curriculum should be involved in its development. 5) Curriculum development works best as a cooperative process involving stakeholders.

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    Peter Oliva outlines 10 axioms or principles for curriculum designers to follow: 1) Change is inevitable and necessary for curriculum to stay relevant. 2) Curriculum should reflect the current time period. 3) New and older curriculum can coexist during a transition period. 4) Teachers implementing curriculum should be involved in its development. 5) Curriculum development works best as a cooperative process involving stakeholders.

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    Peter Oliva outlines 10 axioms or principles for curriculum designers to follow: 1) Change is inevitable and necessary for curriculum to stay relevant. 2) Curriculum should reflect the current time period. 3) New and older curriculum can coexist during a transition period. 4) Teachers implementing curriculum should be involved in its development. 5) Curriculum development works best as a cooperative process involving stakeholders.

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    PETER OLIVA’S

    TEN AXIOMS
    FOR
    CURRICULUM
    DESIGNERS
    ELIZA S. DAGALE
    Curriculum Development is a decision
    making process. When dealing with
    curriculum development or even problems
    with curriculum it is useful to have a set of
    principles that can serve as guidelines for
    deciding what is good, right, and
    reasonable.
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    According to Oliva (2002, p. 29),
    “curriculum principles are derived from
    1) empirical data, 2) experimental data, 3)
    the folklore of curriculum, and 4)
    common sense.”

    3
    Oliva (2005) states that curriculum principles may be
    viewed as whole truths, partial truths, or hypotheses.
    Axioms
    -a maxim widely accepted on its intrinsic merit,
    -a statement accepted as true as the basis for
    argument or inference
    -an established rule or principle of a self-evident
    truth

    5
    ✗ Oliva (2005) offers several generally accepted
    axioms that provide a frame of reference for
    curriculum developers seeking ways improve
    curriculum and solve curriculum problems.

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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    One of the characteristics of
    1. Change is curriculum is its being dynamic.
    Societal development and
    both inevitable knowledge revolution come so
    and necessary. fast that the need to address the
    changing condition requires new
    curriculum designs.

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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    A relevant curriculum should
    respond to changes brought
    2. Curriculum
    about by current social forces,
    reflects as a philosophical positions,
    product of its psychological principles, new
    time. knowledge and educational
    reforms. This is also called
    timeliness.
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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    3. Curriculum changes A revision in a curriculum starts
    made at an earlier and ends slowly. More often,
    period of time can curriculum is gradually phased in
    exist concurrently and phased out thus the change
    with newer curriculum that occurs can coexist and
    changes. oftentimes overlaps for long
    periods of time.

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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    Teachers who will implement
    4. Curriculum the curriculum should be
    change depends involved in its development,
    on people who hence should know how to
    will implement design a curriculum. This will
    assure an effective and long
    the change lasting change.
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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    5. Curriculum Any significant change in
    the curriculum should
    development is a
    involve a broad range of
    cooperative stake holders to gain their
    group activity. understanding, support and
    input.

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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    6. Curriculum Choices have to be made; what
    development is a content should be included or
    decision-making excluded, what curriculum best
    process made from serves the needs of the local
    choices of society. Choices of instructional
    alternatives. methods need to be made.

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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    7. Curriculum Continuous monitoring,
    development is a examination, evaluation and
    improvement of curricula
    never-ending
    are to be considered in the
    process. design of the curriculum.

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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    8. Curriculum A curriculum design should be
    development is more based on a careful plan, intended
    effective if it is a outcomes clearly established,
    comprehensive support resources and needed
    process, rather than a time available and teaching staff
    “piecemeal”. pedagogically equipped.

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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    9. Curriculum A curriculum design is composed
    of desired outcomes, subject matter
    development is content complemented with
    more effective references, set of procedures,
    when it follows a needed materials and resources and
    systematic process. evaluation procedure which can be
    placed in a matrix.

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    Oliva’s Ten Axioms for curriculum
    designer
    10. Curriculum Curriculum planners and
    development starts designers should begin with
    existing curriculum. An existing
    from where the design is a good starting point
    curriculum is. for any teacher who plans to
    enhance and enrich a curriculum.

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