Curriculum Orientations and Educational Philosophies of High School Arabic Teachers

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the curriculum orientations of High school Arabic teacher in Riyadh city and to examine the relationship between curriculum orientation and their educational philosophies. The quantitative method (descriptive study) was adopted in this questionnaire survey-based study. Mean and standard deviation for the overall of the curriculum orientations and for each orientation were obtained and Pearson correlation coefficient was also used to examine the relationship between the curriculum orientations and their educational philosophies. The results show that Arabic teachers of High school considered all five curriculum orientations with the self-actualization/ Humanism ranked the highest orientation and the cognitive process ranked the lowest orientation. The current study also indicates that there is a positive relationship at the level of (0.05) between the curriculum orientations and the educational philosophies of the Arabic language teachers in High school.