Subject centered approach, Learner centered Approach, Problem centered Approach, Sources

1. Approaches of
Curriculum organization
M.Ed. Unit VI
M.Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professor

2. Unit VI
Approaches of
Curriculum organization

3. 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.

19. Subject-centered Design
• Emphasis on cognition over affect
• Emphasis on basics and the acquisition
of information
• Designed to build mental discipline

23. 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)

25. 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

26. 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

28. • 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

37. 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

41. 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

49. 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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