Discuss the determinants of educational objective.

1) The Contemporary Society
This comprises the demands of culture, the general social set ups and lifestyle, including all the social institutions. From all these we can determine the needs of the society.
The school owes its existence to the society, it is considered as the ultimate source of ideas for the curriculum.
We look at the issues and problems facing the society; environmental issues, cultural issues, social economic issues and all these are included in the curriculum.

2) The Local Environment
The immediate environment of schools, including the pupils homes will provide us with further ideas for possible objectives.
Knowledge of the socio-economic and physical situation of school surroundings, and the attitude towards education of the pupil’s sub-culture can help us to determine the objectives of education

3) The Learner
Societal needs should not blind us to the individuality of the pupils.
Pupils are independent entities with their own needs, interests and aspirations which must receive special attention when we are formulating objectives.

4) The School Itself
Curriculum implementation is a controlled interaction between students, teachers, time, space, facilities, materials and equipment, content and learning activities.
All these will have some influence on objectives and have therefore to be considered while formulating objectives.
The school climate, the attitude of the teachers, the attitudes of the learners and their relationship between them could exert significant influence on the curriculum.
Bound up in all this, is the teacher’s own philosophy of education; what he holds as priorities in education

5) Knowledge
There is influx of knowledge and it is only fair that we look at the school disciplines or the nature of subject matter and the types of learning that can arise from a study of the subject matter.
Meaningful objectives are formulated in light of the available knowledge because to achieve any objective there must be positive interaction between the learner and some kind of knowledge.
It is necessary to avoid formulating objectives which cannot be achieved because of the absence of appropriate knowledge content.
It is also here that we need advice of the subject specialist on the value and application of knowledge in their subject areas.

6) Philosophy
To select a few but highly important and consistent objectives, it is necessary to screen further heterogeneous collection of objectives in order to eliminate those that are unimportant and contradictory.
The education and social philosophy of the community can serve as a useful screen for e.g. when we talk of good life or a good society there are values which go with such life or society.
Only those objectives that address such values will stand. The rest will have to be excluded.

7) Psychology
The psychology of learning which includes theories both of learning and child development form an important screen or source for selecting objectives.
Educational objectives are educational ends or results to be achieved through learning, so those ends must be in conformity with conditions intrinsic in learning if at all they are going to be achievable and worthwhile

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marto answered the question on May 7, 2019 at 06:09