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Lesson No.1
INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM
Topic 7: Images of Curriculum- 3

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Curriculum as Discrete Tasks and Concepts

Curriculum is a set of tasks to be mastered, and they are assumed to lead to specified
end which has specific behavioural interpretation such as learning a new task or
performing an old one better. This approach is derived from training programs of
business, industry and the military. Just as a skill may be defined in terms of its
constituent behaviour, knowledge and appreciation can be analysed in terms of
affective, cognitive, psychomotor and social concepts that characterize it.

Curriculum as an Agenda for Social Reconstruction

It is based upon the assumption that no society or culture is perfect and that the purpose
of education is to improve it.
School should provide an agenda of knowledge and values that guides students to
improve society and the cultural institutions, belies, and activities which support it. The
orientation may involve considerable input from students, or it may be dominated by
the teachers/ educators decisions about how students should be taught to
reconstruct society.
The methodology may range from teaching students desirable changes that should be
made to equipping them with critical thinking abilities and a desire to ask and act on the

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question: what should be changed, how, and why? In either case, the curriculum is an
agenda for cultural reconstruction.

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