PARADIGM SHIFT IN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: A BRIEF LOOK AT THE PHILOSOPHY OF DOUBT

That a paradigm directs educational practices to pursue its basic assumptions is undeniable. Nevertheless, curriculum development in the 21st century has probably reached the edge of maturity. Now is the time to cynically reconceptualize the existing curriculum to raise new knowledge. In fact, to the present writers, the emergence of a new paradigm shift in curriculum development is not an ad hoc process. For a paradigm to shift, several factors get involved. In this regard, the paper with a cynical look on what happened in curriculum development intends to elicit the factors in charge of the shift in paradigms and cast light on our perceptions in the third millennium.