PHILOSOPHY AND CURRICULUM
Philosophy provides education, especially curriculum workers, with a framework or frameworks for organizing schools and classrooms. It helps them answer what schools are for, what subjects are of value, how students learn, and what methods and materials to use. It provides them with a framework for broad issues and tasks, such as determining the goals of education, the content and its, organization, the process of teaching and learning, and in general what experiences and activities they wish to stress in schools and classrooms. It also provides them with a basis for dealing with precise tasks and for making such decisions as what textbook to use, how to use them, what cognitive and noncognitive activities to utilize and how to utilize them, what homework to assign and how much of it, how to test students and how to use test results, and what courses or subject matter to emphasize.