School curriculum has been around for more than a century long where it is been used for

educations of all levels from primary education, secondary education to tertiary education. All of
these levels require a curriculum to be implemented so that the students can be lead to the goal
that they want to achieve. According to the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary (2020),
curriculum means all the courses given in a school, college, etc., or a particular course of study
in one subject. This means that the curriculum will have a set of subjects that the students need
to study over a period of time given.

In Malaysia, primary education has duration of six years while secondary education has
duration of five years which makes total of eleven years of study. There are as many
interpretations of curriculum design as the definitions of curriculum. One of the most widely
accepted is the one developed by Hilda Taba. “Curriculum design is a statement which identifies
the elements of the curriculum, states what their relationships are to each other and indicates the
principles of organization and the requirements of that organization for the administrative
conditions under which it is to operate. A design, of course, needs to be supported with and to
make explicit a curriculum theory which establishes the sources to consider and the principles to
apply”