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Curriculum Design And Development Assignment
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United Arab Emirates University
Added on 2020-04-15
Curriculum Design And Development Assignment
United Arab Emirates University
Added on 2020-04-15
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Running head: EDUCATION DEGREE-CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTEDUCATION DEGREE-CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1EDUCATION DEGREE-CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTArticle SummaryThe article investigated the four factors that may be the reason for the resistance thatis portrayed by the teachers towards the educational change in the UAE. These four factorsinclude the personal factors, those related to the school culture, personal factors and theorganizational factors. The United Arab Emirates educational systems have been undergoingtremendous changes with respect to the rhetoric of decentralization. The change in the systemhad taken birth after the education ministry had delegated the Abu Dhabi Education Councilor the ADEC with the responsibility of education in the region of Abu Dhabi. The articlesuggests that the teachers involved in the study were supportive of the change and felt that theprincipals of and the other agents who advocated the change. The teachers needed to bepsychologically prepared to be exposed to the proposed change as they were apprehensive ofthe outcomes that may follow the implementation of the change. The frequentimplementations of various changes had already exhausted the teachers. The study had alsopointed out that the implementation of the English language as a medium of instruction hadled the teachers to face a huge amount of difficulties in helping the slow-learners to grasp thestudies that were brought forward by the recently imposed curriculum.The efforts of the changes that are made by the ADEC face many obstacles that risefrom the end of the administrators, teachers, parents or guardians and the students. The mostimportant of these obstacles is the one that arises from the end of the teacher. The teacher, inmost of the cases, resists a change based on the administration and the initiation of thechange. In case of the changes that were implemented on the curriculum, the teachers adaptedto those parts of the change that they found themselves acquainted with. Observationsrevealed that they were distressed due to the parts of the curriculum on which they needed todevote extra amount of effort. The same observation was recorded for the changes that wereimplemented on the methods of teaching. A group of teachers believed that the traditionalteaching methods were advantageous over the ones that the Education Council was trying toimplement.Purpose and Review of previous studiesThe purpose of this paper was to examine the factors that were responsible for theresistance of the teachers towards the change in the patterns of education in the governmentschools of Al-Ain region. The study in discussion, as mentioned above, specifically aims tofind out the underlying factors that are responsible for the resistance of the teachers towards
2EDUCATION DEGREE-CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTthe changes in the educational patterns that are currently taking place in the governmentschools in the Al-Ain region of the United Arab Emirates (Ibrahim, Al-Kaabi and El-Zaatari2013). This study had concentrated on the government schools situated in Al-Ain region onlyand thus is not capable to be generalized across all the territories that fall under the UnitedArab Emirates. The resistance towards the change in the educational pattern has been asignificant problem that does exist within the educational societies all over the world. Thishas been one of the main challenges that needs to be overcome in order to successfullyimplement the change in the education systems.Educational change refers to the developments of the skills, knowledge and thedisposition of the teachers, the students and the other administrative officials. These changeshelp the present education system to strive in the ever-changing and competitive globalsociety. Literature has been extensively reviewed in order to aid the identification of thevarious factors that have been instrumental in the resistance of the change by the teachers.The teachers had to transfer from a known realm to an unknown one thereby triggering thefeelings of discomfort and doubts in them. Researchers have also suggested that the teachersmay consider that the reforms might threaten their professional identities. They may alsoresist the change if they had not been allowed the proper time span that should have beenallowed in order to get themselves accustomed to the changes. Research portrays that ateacher may be resisting the change in the educational system due to the disagreement of thechanges with the skills and specialties of the concerned teacher. The values and norms thatare related to the change must be in agreement with the basic values and the culture of thetargeted organization. The resistance to the change may also be avoided by training theteachers on the different components of the change as well as helping them to stay aware ofthe upcoming changes that are about to take place.Main FindingsThe main findings of the authors may be listed as below.The teachers were overwhelmed about the changes that were incorporated.Most of the changes did not pertain to the activity of teaching. The teacherswere also observed to have been worried about the fact that the school hourswould get prolonged. The most important change needed was the change inthe psychology of the teachers. They needed to be psychologically stable inorder to implement the change. The teachers were observed to be highly
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