Approaches to Curriculum Design

Approaches to Curriculum Design

1. Subject-Centered Design

2. Subject Design

   • Learning is so compartmentalized
   • Traditional approach to teaching and learning

3. Discipline Design

   • Focuses on academic disciplines
   • Use in college

4. Correlation Design

   • Themes are related to each other and still retain their identity

5. Broad Field Design/Interdisciplinary

   • It is called a holistic curriculum with broad themes and integrations.

6. Learner Center Design

   • Progressivism
   • The learner as the center of educative process

7. Child Centered Design

   • Based on the needs and interest of the child
   • One learns by doing
   • The learners are active participants of the educative process

8. Experience Centered Design

   • Experiences of the learners become the starting point of the curriculum
     • Students can shape their own learning based on the variety of opportunities provided by teachers.

9. Humanistic Design

   • Integration of thinking, feeling and doing
   • Self-development is the main goal of learning
   • Carl Rogers

10. Problem Centered Design