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Philosophies of Education, Knowledge and Curriculum & Instruction

Received: 22 April 2021     Accepted: 10 June 2021     Published: 7 July 2021
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Education is viewed as a mean for economic growth and development within which nations are allotted a substantial chunk of their annual revenue for having skilled work force, but this is not well materialized specially in the third world countries due to considerable human vulnerabilities and under investment in the sector that also crippled the productivity and labor competent, to achieve positive state objective of education in consideration to economic and social prosperity, effective curriculum need to be in place to empower people’s horizon of understanding themselves and their world at large, increase creativity, technological advancement, entrepreneurship, income distribution and economic and social transformation. However, such a curriculum is primarily influenced by varieties of inescapable competing ends such as philosophical and epistemological views, political and economic environments, content knowledge and curriculum expectation as well as quality of educational inputs and facilities. Therefore, this is a conceptual analysis on philosophy of education and curriculum, knowledge and its process of knowing as well as curriculum and instruction with the main purpose of exposing the interplay between knowledge, philosophy and curriculum in education, the paper had qualitatively reviewed the existing body of literature relevant to these terminologies precisely and finally concluded to a general umbrella of understanding these three vernacular as significantly intertwined and a joint phenomenon in the overall education scenario.

Published in American Journal of Art and Design (Volume 6, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajad.20210603.11
Page(s) 60-65
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Philosophy of Education, Knowledge, Curriculum

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  • Department of Educational Planning and Management, Faculty of Education and Behavioural Studies, Jig-jiga University, Jig-jiga, Ethiopia

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