Approaches of Curriculum organization

M.Ed. Unit VI

M.VijayalakshmiAssistant Professor

Unit VIApproaches of

Curriculum organization

Subject-centered Designs: Subject Design, Discipline Design, Broad field Design and Correlation Design – Learner-centered Designs: Child-centered Design, Experience-centered Design, Romantic Design and Humanistic Design – Problem-centered Design: Life-Situation Design, Core Design and Social Reconstruction Design – Sources of Curriculum Design.

Subject-centered Design

• Emphasis on cognition over affect

• Emphasis on basics and the acquisition of information

• Designed to build mental discipline

Broad-field Design

• Also called fused curriculum

• Retains emphasis on acquisition of knowledge but arranges content into more general fields of study (language arts instead of separate literature and grammar)

Advantages • Subject matter may be integrated more

readily• Establishes a logical and useful organization

for presenting knowledge• Can learn with understanding and

appreciation• Basic principles and generalizations

necessary for critical thinking are emphasized more than isolated facts

Disadvantages • Compression of several courses into one

does not guarantee integration • Result in sketchy knowledge and

“watering down” of specific knowledge• With the emphasis on generalization

rather than specifies, learning tends to be too abstract

• Subjects should be taught by combining and correlating their identical elements or contents to the learners

• Tries to correlate between theory and practice of knowledge

• Designed by Gandhiji for his Basic Education System - school subjects correlate to craft

Experience-centered Design

• Determined by the needs and interests of the students

• Less formally planned than other curricula

• Emphasis on learning by doing and individual problem solving

• A problem task might be local pollution

Experience-centered Design

• Work, utility and productivity of education – urgent need of the hour

• Ready to work – farms, factories and industries

• Become active and productive members of the society

Core Design

• The most subject-centered of this category

• Organized like the broad-fields curricula but based on student needs and problems

• Organized around questions or themes

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