As technology improves, we are able create new techniques for learning. His third reason is that teacher development is always evolving. This article also states five points that the author believes are essential for guiding curriculum development. The conceptual framework principle talks about how planning a curriculum starts with an understanding of how people learn and then continues instruction with teaching styles that go along with students learning styles. Conceptualizing attitudes and beliefs about learning refers to how the function of schooling is mainly transmitting facts, skills and values to students.
All students are rational and capable of intelligent problem solving.
This portion also discusses social change as a movement toward harmony with the environment rather than as an effort to exert control over it. The epistemology section deals with origin, nature and limitations of knowledge. Interaction with the social environment builds intelligence. The political realities of curriculum development talks about how many subject have a hard time finding a place in the school curriculum. The five principles provide a good foundation for teacher education and curriculum decisions in schools.