Hilda Taba

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Hilda Taba
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A Brief background history
Hilda Taba was born in Kooraste, a small village
near Kanepi in the South-East of Estonia on
December 7, 1902.   Ass. Professor of Education
and director of curriculum laboratory at the
University of Chicago (1939-1945) Director of
the Intergroup Education Project in New York City
(1945 -1948) Director of the Intergroup
Education Center at the University of Chicago
(1948 1951) Professor of Education at San
Francisco State University (1951 1967)  
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• American scholars who influenced the development
  of Tabas educational ideas 
• Edward Lee Thorndike (1874 1949)
• Paul Monroe (1869 1947)
• Karlton Boyed H. Bode (1873 - 1953)
• Washburn (1889 - )
• William H. Kilpatrick (1871 1965)
• John Dewey (1859 1952) 

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 The Dalton Plan  is an educational system in
which students accept as individualized contracts
the work assigned to them. These contracts are
actually monthly assignments. Students work at
their own rates and do not depend on close
guidance from their teachers, although they
confer individually with the teachers. The plan
is named for the Dalton, Mass., high school where
Helen Parkhurst devised and, from 1913, perfected
it (New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia -
Release 6, 1993).
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• Four Taba Strategies 
• Concept Development
• Interpretation of Data
• Application of Generalization
• Resolution of Conflict

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Questions teachers should as themselves To
ensure learning

• How should facts be identified for mastery?
• What knowledge is the most lasting?
• How is content to be used for application?
• How can achievement be best assessed?

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Some Hilda Tabas philosophical ideas of
curriculum development   The development of
new curricula and programs is more effective,
if it is based on the principles of democratic
guidance and on the well-founded distribution
of work. The emphasis is on the partnership
based on competence, and not on
administration. The renovation of curricula
and programs is not a short effort but a long
process, lasting for years.   
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• Development of curricula.
• An underlying idea in Tabas curriculum model is
  the notion of a spiral curriculum.
• Believes inductive teaching strategies should be
  used to develop concepts, generalizations, and
  applications.
• three levels of content organization
• 1. key ideas,
• 2. organizational ideas
• 3. facts

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Her contributions still being used include
Intercultural education through her work on the
Intergroup Education in Cooperating Schools in
the 1940s. She advocated planning for coherent
programs, She broadened the scope beyond race to
include religion and class (but not gender).Her
general strategy for developing thinking through
social studies curriculum have significantly
influenced curriculum developers of 1960s and
early 1970s. Also, many general principles and
ideas of curriculum design developed by Hilda
Taba belong to the foundations of modern
curriculum theories, and are frequently referred
by other authors.  
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Tabas works on curriculum development are not
obsolete as they deal with the fundamentals of
curriculum design still in practice today.
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