Abstract

AVENDANO-CASTRO, William R.  and  PARADA-TRUJILLO, Abad E.. The Curriculum in Knowledge Society. educ.educ. [online]. 2013, vol.16, n.1, pp.159-174. ISSN 0123-1294.

This study analyzes the concept of a curriculum and its relationship to what is known as knowledge society, cultural reproduction and cognition. The theoretic concept of a curriculum is framed, and its main role underlined: to reproduce culture as the basis of cognition of individuals. The study analyzes the implications of a knowledge society as well as some of its characteristics in order to find a common ground between curriculum, culture and information society. Additionally, the study explores the principles and postulates of Reuven Feurenstein's theory of structural cognitive modifiability (SCM) and its impact on the principles of limiting the concept of curriculum. It concludes that a subject's culture is the practical ground on which to construct cognitive processes founded on information. Knowledge society must offer education the relevant context to which to adapt the curriculum in order to answer to today's society and respond to the needs of students.

Keywords : Research on curriculum; culture; knowledge society; education.

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