The problems of aims and objectives in education

Abstract

What is the status of curriculum scholarship in a selected dimension of the field-curriculum objectives?

The problem of what to expect of the young generation to learn and to know in the process of education has been an issue for debate among educators ever since. Education specialists and laymen have been working on this problem for years without coming to a clear and precise definition of what is it they wanted the future generations to know in schools.

Decision-making for curriculum objectives and aims is generally thought of as a responsibility of every citizen in any society. Perhaps it is this concept of general responsibility that increases the extent of the problem. In a democracy, every person seems to feel that he has something to say and since not every person has the same things to say, curriculum-making has become an unpleasant job that education specialists sometimes would want to avoid from doing.