The Negatives of Curriculum and Instruction

Abstract

This study was carried out to find-out the relatively most predom inant opposites of what is taught in the school otherwise termed the negatives of curriculum and instruction. These are classified into negatives of thought (NOT) negatives of speech (NOS) and negatives of action (NOA).

The location characteristics, the most vulnerable victims of the negatives, and the possible ways of removing or minimizing the negatives were carefully studied.

The study revealed the following:

That the negatives of curriculum and instruction are predominantly society-based;

That the youths are the most vulnerable victims of the negatives; and

The moral education, societal re-orieritation and living by exam ples rather than by precepts are the three major ways of removing of minimizing the negatives.

A simple conceptual model for solving societal problems is offered with the concluding note that the youths are victims of circumstance, a misled generation whose enemies are not in the home or school but on the streets.