Personal Curriculum Q-Sort (Adapted from Badiali, 2000, as cited in Poetter, 2014, p.

156-160)
Aims of Education

A. ___ To improve and reconstruct society; education for change
B. ___ To promote democratic, social living; to foster creative self-learning
C. ___ To educate the rational person; to cultivate the intellect through transmitting
worthwhile knowledge that has been gathered, organized, and systematized.
D. ___ To provide for the construction of active citizens; to nourish civic literacy, citizen
participation, and political responsibility.
E. ___ To promote the intellectual growth of the individual; to educate the competent person
for the benefit of humanity.

Nature of Knowledge
A. ___ Focus on skills and subjects needed to identify and ameliorate problems of society;
active concern with contemporary and future society.
B. ___ Focus on past and permanent studies; mastery of facts and universal truths.
C. ___ Focus on reconstructing a visionary language and public philosophy that puts
equality, liberty, and human life at the center of the notions of democracy and citizenship.
D. ___ Focus on growth and development; a living-learning process; active and relevant
learning.
E. ___ Focus on essential skills and academic subjects; mastery of concepts and principals
of subject matter.

Role of the Teacher
A. ___ Teachers are critical intellectuals who create democratic sites for social
transformation. They empower students to question how knowledge is produced and
distributed.
B. ___ Teachers serve as change agents for reform; they help students become aware of
problems confronting humanity.
C. ___ Teachers should help students think rationally; teach based on the Socratic method,
oral exposition, relaying explicit traditional values.
D. ___ Teachers are guides for problem solving and scientific inquiry.
E. ___ Teachers should act as authority figures who have expertise in subject areas.

Curriculum Purposes
A. ___ Curriculum centers on classical subjects and literary analysis. It is constant.
B. ___ Curriculum centers on social critique and social change dedicated to self and social
empowerment.
C. ___ Curriculum centers around essential skills in the 3 Rs (readin, ritin, rithmetic) and
major content areas (English, science, math, history, foreign language).
D. ___ Curriculum centers on examining social, economic, and political problems, from
present/future, national/international perspectives.
E. ___ Curriculum centers on student interests; involves the application of human problems;
subject matter is interdisciplinary