CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The original Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, commonly referred to as Bloom’s Taxonomy, was created by Benjamin Bloom in 1956, and later revised in 2001. Bloom categorized and classified the cognitive domain of learning into varying levels according to complexity and richness.

Detailed explanation-2: -These gentlemen are the primary authors of the revisions to what had become known as Bloom’s Taxonomy-an ordering of cognitive skills. (A taxonomy is really just a word for a form of classification.) This taxonomy had permeated teaching and instructional planning for almost 50 years before it was revised in 2001.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1956, Benjamin Bloom published a framework for grouping educational goals commonly referred to as Bloom’s Taxonomy. The taxonomy consists of six major categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of those educators was Lorin Anderson, a former student of Benjamin Bloom. Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) revised Bloom’s taxonomy to be more adaptive to our current age by proposing another taxonomy that will meet curriculum designers, teachers, and students needs better than the Bloom’s one.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the 1990’s, Lorin Anderson and a group of cognitive psychologists updated the taxonomy. The revisions they made appear fairly minor, however, they do have significant impact on how people use the taxonomy. The changes can be divided into three categories: terminology, structure, and emphasis.