Equity reflections
There are several equity issues that arise when using a reforming approach to curriculum that we now explore in turn Philosophy Reinforcing conservative cultural values Writers such as Bernard Spodek have argued that a developmental curriculum with its focus on the development of the individual child denies the implicit social and moral agenda that is the curriculum content
Spodek(1988) argued that there has been a confusion within developmentally appropriate practice(DAP) between curriculum content and teaching method which has embedded dominant social ideologies within the curriculum. DAP prescribes how to teach,