The Field of curriculum

Curriculum

• Curriculum is almost everything that can shared or give information and knowledge. It has a field of study that is ceucial to the health of schoolsand society.

• Curriculum development is orgnized preparation of whatever is going to be tught in schoolss at a given period of time of the year.

Curriculum Approach

• Approach– a person views,values and knwldedge that

enables them to constract a curriclum.

Five Curriculum Approaches

Behavioral Approach Mangerial Approach Systems Approach Academic Approach Humanistic Approach

Curriculum Approaches• Behavioral Approach

The behavioral approach is based on the concept of explaining behavior through observation, and the belief that our environment is what causes us to behave differently or suffer illnesses

• Humanist Approach

Humanistic, humanism and humanist are terms in psychology relating to an approach which studies the whole person, and the uniqueness of each individual. Essentially, these terms refer the same approach in psychology.

Curriculum domains

Curriculum development

Curriculum design

Curriculum development

Thinking and deciding what the curriculum should be like.

Curriculum design

-curriculum is influenced by a person’s approach.

- Planned and unplanned curriculum.

- Null and operational curriculum.

Theory and PracticeWhich is better?

Curriculum certification

• Curriculum jobs are not well defined.

• People other than curriculum experts can obtain jobs because there are few certification requirements

• Students of curriculum may not have taken all courses of curriculum such as development, implementation and evaluation

People who can affect curriculum

Student

Teacher

Principal

Parent