Curriculum Development: Nature and Scope

This is referring to the subject matter, to the content, to the   course that you have to teach to the students.

• What will be taught?

• Who will be taught?

• How it will be taught?

• Why we taught?

These asked the questions, What kind of students do I have? What kind of audience am I targeting?

• What will be taught?

• Who will be taught?

• How it will be taught?

• None of the choices

This answer the question, What method should I used so that I may be able to ensure that this students should learn something from me.

• How it will be taught?

• Who will be taught?

• What will be taught?

• None of the choices

It refers to a set of related statements that give meaning to school curriculum by pointing out the relationships among its elements and directing its development, its use, and its evaluation.

• Curriculum assumptions

• Curriculum development

• Curriculum theory

• Curriculum innovations

This second dimension refers to the knowledge, skills, or dispositions which are implicit in the choice of items, and the way in which they are arranged.

• Aims or Objectives

• Content or Subject Matter

• Methods or Procedures

• Evaluation

It refers to the means for determining whether the curriculum has been implemented successfully.

• Assessment

• Methods or Procedures

• Objectives

• Subject Matter

He views curriculum  as  “permanent studies” where rules of grammar, reading, rhetoric, logic and mathematics for basic education are emphasized and 3R’s (reading, writing, ‘rithmetic) should be emphasized.

• Robert M. Hutchins

• Joseph Schwab

• Arthur Bestor

• Phillip  Phenix 

He believes that education is experiencing. Reflective thinking is a means that  unifies curricular elements that are tested by application.

• Othaniel Smith, William Stanley and Harlan Shore

• John Dewey

• Holin Caswell and Kenn Campbell

• Colin Marsh and George Willis

It is defined as planned, purposeful, progressive, and systematic process in order to create positive improvements in the education system.

• Curriculum Development

• Curriculum Planning

• Curriculum Theory

• Curriculum Analysis

This curriculum design focuses on the content of the curriculum; commonly divides the school hours based on the number of subjects.

• Subject-centered Design

• Learner-centered Design

• Problem-centered Design