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Prof Ed 9 Approaches To Curriculum

The document outlines three main approaches to curriculum design: Subject-Centered Design, Learner-Centered Design, and Problem-Centered Design. Each approach emphasizes different aspects of education, such as the content of the curriculum, the needs of learners, and the importance of problem-solving skills. Additionally, it highlights the importance of creating a supportive learning environment that respects the uniqueness of each learner.

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Prof Ed 9 Approaches To Curriculum

The document outlines three main approaches to curriculum design: Subject-Centered Design, Learner-Centered Design, and Problem-Centered Design. Each approach emphasizes different aspects of education, such as the content of the curriculum, the needs of learners, and the importance of problem-solving skills. Additionally, it highlights the importance of creating a supportive learning environment that respects the uniqueness of each learner.

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Subject-Centered Design
- Focuses on the content of the curriculum
Variations:
➢ Subject design
➢ Discipline design
➢ Correlation design
➢ Broad field design/interdisciplinary
1. Learner-Centered Design
- Needs, interests, and experiences of
learners. Learner is the center of educative
process.
➢ Child-centered design
➢ Experience-centered design
➢ Humanistic design
1. Problem-Centered Curriculum Design
- draws on social problems, needs, interest
and abilities of the learners.
➢ Life-situations design
➢ Core-problem design
Child or Learner-Centered Approach
➢ It is based on underlying philosophy that the
child or learner is the center of the
educational process.
➢ Curriculum is constructed based on the
needs, interest, purposes and abilities of the
learners
1. Acknowledge and respect the fundamental rights of the
child.
2. Make all activities revolve around the overall development
of the learner.
3. Consider the uniqueness of every learner in a multicultural
classroom.
4. Consider using different learning instruction or teaching.
5. Provide a motivating supportive learning environment for
all the learners.
Subject-Centered Approach
➢ It is anchored on curriculum design which
prescribe separate distinct subjects for every
educational level: basic education, higher
education or vocational-technical education.
1. The primary focus is the subject matter.
2. The emphasis is on bits and pieces of information
which maybe detached from life.
3. The subject matters serves as a means of identifying
problems of living.
4. Learning means accumulation of content, or
knowledge.
5. Teacher’s role is to dispense the content.
Problem-Centered Approach
➢ This approach is based on the idea that
children encounter difficulties as part of their
everyday existence. As a result, problem-
solving skills help students become more and
more capable of achieving personal growth.
1. Each learner becomes more independent as a result of
their ability to direct and guide themselves when solving
challenges.
2. Through active engagement in many activities, the
students are ready to take on their civic responsibilities.
3. The curriculum guides students in identifying issues and
difficulties and in the process of looking for solutions.
Students themselves are problem solvers.
➢ It is a model for designing, refining, upgrading and reviewing
the curriculum resulting in a framework that provides form,
focus and function (Hale and Dunlap, 2010)

➢ Is a visual timelines that outline desired learning outcomes to


be achieved, contents, skills and values taught, instructional
time, assessment to be used, and overall student movement
towards the attainment of the intended outcomes.
Bilbao, P., Dayagbil, F., and Corpuz, B. (2020). The Teacher
and the School Curriculum. Lorimar Publishing Incorporated.

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